The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 187
There is something about it in Latin, beginning: "_Facilis descensus_."
Who acts: something · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: Latin
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 (something), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 something | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Latin | case |
| 7 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beginning | punct |
| 9 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Latin | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 descensus | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 descensus | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 descensus | punct |
| 13 | Facilis | Facilis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 descensus | compound |
| 14 | descensus | descensus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 descensus | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 descensus | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 descensus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | something | Latin; there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | gerund | something not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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