The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 48
In the middle of the cave was a hole like a very big hand-washing basin, and in the middle of the basin Edmund saw a large pale person sitting.
Who acts: hole, large pale person · What happens: be, wash, see, sit · To what, where: hole, middle, large pale person
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 (hole, large pale person), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hole | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 basin | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 basin | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 big | advmod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 basin | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 washing | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hand | punct |
| 16 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 basin | amod |
| 17 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 saw | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 basin | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 basin | det |
| 25 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 middle | nmod |
| 26 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 basin | appos |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hole | acl:relcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 person | det |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 person | amod |
| 30 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 person | amod |
| 31 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obj |
| 32 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 person | acl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a hole | the middle of the cave | like a big washing basin | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wash | gerund | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | a hole not said here | a large pale person | the middle of the basin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sit | gerund | a large pale person not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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