The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 36
He found out nothing, but about halfway up the wall of the cave, he saw a hole.
Who acts: lantern · What happens: find out, see · To what, where: nothing, hole
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 (lantern), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 found | compound:prt |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wall | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 wall | cc |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 halfway | advmod |
| 8 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 11 wall | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | lantern | nothing | up the wall of the cave | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | see | past | lantern | a hole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus |
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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