The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 47
He went in, and there was a round cave, like the dome of St. Paul's.
Who acts: fire · What happens: go in, be · To what, where: round cave
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 (fire), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cave | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 9 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cave | amod |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dome | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 dome | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dome | det |
| 14 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cave | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Paul | case |
| 16 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Paul | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dome | nmod |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Paul | case |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | fire | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a round cave | 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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