The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 55
The Prince blew his horn and shouted: "Tally ho!
Who acts: Prince · What happens: blow, shout, tally · To what, where: horn, ho · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shouted | cc |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tally | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tally | punct |
| 10 | Tally | tally | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shouted | advcl |
| 11 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tally | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the Prince | Prince's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the Prince not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tally in a quote | infinitive | the Prince not said here | ho | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ho=Theme |
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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