The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 94
He pointed out of the window, and everyone could see a vast yellow cloud rising up into the air above the mountain.
Who acts: chicken, everyone, vast yellow cloud · What happens: point out, see, rise up · To what, where: window, vast yellow cloud, air
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 (chicken, everyone, vast yellow cloud), 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 pointed | nsubj |
| 2 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pointed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pointed | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cloud | det |
| 13 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloud | amod |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloud | amod |
| 15 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 16 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cloud | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 rising | compound:prt |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rising | obl |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 air | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | past | chicken | the window | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | could | everyone | a vast yellow cloud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rise up | gerund | a vast yellow cloud not said here | the air above the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_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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