The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 105
Then the Rocking Horse begged to be allowed to go and live on the Hippogriff's page of the book. "
Who acts: Rocking Horse, Hippogriff · What happens: beg, allow, go, live, page · To what, where: page, book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rocking Horse, Hippogriff), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 begged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Horse | det |
| 3 | Rocking | Rocking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Horse | compound |
| 4 | Horse | Horse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 allowed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 begged | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 live | cc |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 page | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hippogriff | det |
| 15 | Hippogriff | Hippogriff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 page | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Hippogriff | case |
| 17 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 live | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 book | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 book | det |
| 20 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 page | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Rocking Horse | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | live | infinitive | the Hippogriff's page of the book | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on page=Location | |||||
| 5 | page | the Hippogriff | the book | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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