The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 37
And, being a boy, he climbed up to it and crept in; and it was the entrance to a rocky passage.
Who acts: boy, wall · What happens: be, climb up, creep in · To what, where: boy, wall, entrance
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 (boy, wall), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 climbed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boy | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 boy | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boy | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 climbed | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 climbed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crept | cc |
| 13 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 climbed | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 crept | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 entrance | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 entrance | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 entrance | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 entrance | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 entrance | det |
| 20 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 passage | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 passage | det |
| 23 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 passage | amod |
| 24 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entrance | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | climb up | past | a boy | wall | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | creep in | past | a boy not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | wall | the entrance | to a rocky passage | tree rules |
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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