The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 47
The Dragon fell on the Manticora at once, and the mail was no defense.
Who acts: Dragon, mail · What happens: fall, be · To what, where: defense
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, mail), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Manticora | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Manticora | det |
| 6 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 defense | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 defense | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mail | det |
| 12 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 defense | nsubj | ||
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 defense | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 defense | det |
| 15 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Dragon | on the Manticora | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on manticora=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the mail | no defense | tree rules |
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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