The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 239
There was the town, on the hillside!
Who acts: town · What happens: be · To what, where: hillside
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 (town), 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 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hillside | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hillside | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hillside | det |
| 8 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the town | the hillside; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hillside=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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