The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 38
Then the King ran and opened the book at the page that had "cora" on it, and there was the picture--Manticora, all yellow, with a lion's body and a man's face, just as the Chancellor had said.
Who acts: King, page, picture, body · What happens: run, open, have, be, say · To what, where: book, page, cora, Chancellor · 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 (King, page, picture, body), 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 | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 page | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 page | det |
| 11 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 page | acl:relcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cora | punct |
| 15 | cora | cora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cora | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 picture | det |
| 24 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 Manticora | punct |
| 26 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 picture | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 yellow | punct |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 yellow | det |
| 29 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 picture | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 body | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 body | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lion | det |
| 33 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 body | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 lion | case |
| 35 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 yellow | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 face | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 face | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 man | case |
| 40 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 body | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 said | punct |
| 42 | just | just | ADV | _ | 47 said | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 said | mark |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Chancellor | det |
| 45 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 said | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 said | aux |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 body | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the King | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the King not said here | the book | the page | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme at page=Location | |||
| 3 | have | past | the page | cora | cora | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cora=Patient | |||
| 4 | be | past | the picture | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | a lion's body and a man's face not said here | the Chancellor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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