The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 67
He went crawling on hands and knees in a most un-Prince-like way, and at last, finding a hollow tree, he crept into it.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: go, crawl, find, creep · To what, where: hands, hollow tree, last, tree
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | crawling | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crawling | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knees | cc |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hands | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 un-Prince-like | advmod |
| 11 | un-Prince-like | un-prince-like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crawling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 finding | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 finding | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 finding | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 last | punct |
| 18 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finding | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 crept | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 crept | nsubj |
| 24 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 crept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | crawl | gerund | Prince not said here | hands and knees | in a un-Prince-like way | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | Prince not said here | a hollow tree | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 4 | creep | past | Prince | tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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