The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 65
The Prince slipped off his elephant on the other side and ran into the thickest part of the wood.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: slip off, run · To what, where: elephant, other side, thickest part
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 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 slipped | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 elephant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 part | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 15 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip off | past | the Prince | Prince's elephant | the other side | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent elephant=Patient | |||
| 2 | run | past | the Prince not said here | into the thickest part of the wood result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into part=Result |
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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