The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 218
She plunged headfirst into the hole, and slid down the shaft after her baby.
Who acts: Cockatrice · What happens: plunge, slide down · To what, where: hole, shaft
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 (Cockatrice), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plunged | nsubj |
| 2 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | headfirst | headfirst | ADV | _ | 2 plunged | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plunged | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slid | cc |
| 9 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 plunged | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 slid | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shaft | det |
| 12 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slid | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 baby | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 baby | nmod:poss |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | past | Cockatrice | the hole | headfirst property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | slide down | past | Cockatrice not said here | the shaft | after Cockatrice's baby | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaft=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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