The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 42
It went and hid behind the Town Hall, and at night when the people were asleep it went around and ate all the pussy-cats in the town.
Who acts: picture, people · What happens: go, hide, be, go around, eat · To what, where: Town Hall, pussy cats, town
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 (picture, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hid | cc |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 Hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hall | det |
| 7 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hall | compound |
| 8 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 asleep | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 asleep | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asleep | cop |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 night | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 20 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ate | cc |
| 22 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 cats | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cats | det |
| 25 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cats | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 pussy | punct |
| 27 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ate | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cats | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | picture | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | picture not said here | the Town Hall | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind hall=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the people | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go around | past | picture | night | around property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat | past | picture not said here | all pussy cats | the town | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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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