The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 176
And off he went through the caves, and the drakling followed.
Who acts: plenty, drakling · What happens: go, follow · To what, where: caves
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 (plenty, drakling), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 caves | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caves | det |
| 7 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 drakling | det |
| 11 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | plenty | the caves | off property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through cave=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the drakling | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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