The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 52
They hunted by field, and they hunted by wold; they drew the woods blank, and the scent didn't lie on the downs at all.
Who acts: people, woods, scent · What happens: hunt, draw, blank, not lie · To what, where: downs
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, woods, scent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 field | case |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hunted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hunted | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hunted | nsubj |
| 8 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunted | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 wold | case |
| 10 | wold | wold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunted | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunted | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woods | det |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blank | nsubj |
| 16 | blank | blank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 drew | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lie | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lie | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scent | det |
| 20 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lie | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lie | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 lie | advmod |
| 23 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blank | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 downs | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 downs | det |
| 26 | downs | down | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lie | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 downs | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | people | by field | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by field=Location | ||||
| 2 | hunt | past | people | by wold | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by wold=Location | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | blank | present | the woods | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not lie | past · do-support | the scent | the downs at all | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on down=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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