The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 155
The next moment it began to come out of its room and to put on its shoes.
Who acts: next moment · What happens: begin, come out, put · To what, where: shoes
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next moment), 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 | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 room | nmod:poss |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shoes | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the next moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come out | to-infinitive | the next moment not said here | of bed's room; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | the next moment not said here | bed's shoes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=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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