The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 221
It was like watching a goods train go by in Germany.
Who acts: way, goods train · What happens: watch, go · To what, where: goods train
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 (way, goods train), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watching | aux |
| 3 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 4 watching | mark |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 train | det |
| 6 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 train | compound |
| 7 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watching | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 watching | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Germany | case |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Germany | case |
| 11 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | way | a goods train | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | a goods train not said here | by Germany | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by germany=Location |
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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