The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 57
Tantivy!" and the whole pack charged downhill toward the hollow by the wood.
Who acts: wood · What happens: charge · To what, where: Tantivy
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 (wood), 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 | Tantivy | Tantivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tantivy | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tantivy | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pack | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pack | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pack | amod |
| 7 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tantivy | conj |
| 8 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 8 charged | advmod |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 hollow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hollow | det |
| 12 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 charged | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 charged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge in a quote | participle · passive | the wood | Tantivy and the whole pack | toward the hollow; downhill property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=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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