The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 13
And in the afternoon the Dragon suddenly swooped down upon the common in all his hideous redness, and carried off the Soccer Players, umpires, goal-posts, ball, and all.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: swoop down, carry off · To what, where: Soccer Players
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 (Dragon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swooped | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 afternoon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 afternoon | det |
| 4 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swooped | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dragon | det |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 swooped | nsubj |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 swooped | advmod |
| 8 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 swooped | advmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 common | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 common | det |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 swooped | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 redness | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 redness | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 redness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 redness | amod |
| 17 | redness | redness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 common | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swooped | parataxis |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 carried | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Players | det |
| 23 | Soccer | Soccer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Players | compound |
| 24 | Players | Player | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 carried | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 umpires | punct |
| 26 | umpires | umpire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Players | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 posts | punct |
| 28 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 posts | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 goal | punct |
| 30 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 umpires | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ball | punct |
| 32 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 posts | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 all | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 all | cc |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 carried | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop down | past | the Dragon | afternoon | upon the common; down, suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry off | past | the Soccer Players | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
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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