The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 108
As for the Hippogriff, he accepted the position of the King's Own Rocking Horse--a situation left vacant by the retirement of the wooden one.
Who acts: Horse, wooden one · What happens: accept, leave, retire · To what, where: position, situation
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 (Horse, wooden one), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Hippogriff | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hippogriff | det |
| 4 | Hippogriff | Hippogriff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hippogriff | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 accepted | nsubj |
| 7 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 position | det |
| 9 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Horse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | Own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Horse | amod |
| 15 | Rocking | rocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Horse | compound |
| 16 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 position | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 situation | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 situation | det |
| 19 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Horse | appos |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 situation | acl |
| 21 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 left | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 retirement | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 retirement | det |
| 24 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 27 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | amod |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 retirement | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | Horse | the position of the King's Own Rocking Horse | as the Hippogriff | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent position=Theme as hippogriff=Attribute | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | a situation not said here | by the retirement of the wooden one; vacant property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by retirement=Location | ||||
| 3 | retire | the wooden one | nom retirement «state intransitive»: of=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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