The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 56
At last came a Saturday when the Dragon actually walked into the Royal nursery and carried off the King's own pet Rocking Horse.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: come, walk, carry off, rock · To what, where: last, Royal nursery, own pet, Horse
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Saturday | det |
| 5 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 walked | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dragon | det |
| 8 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 nursery | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nursery | det |
| 13 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nursery | compound |
| 14 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 carried | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 King | case |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pet | amod |
| 22 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obj |
| 23 | Rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 carried | advcl |
| 24 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Rocking | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | last | saturday | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | the Dragon | into the Royal nursery result; actually property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into nursery=Result | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past | the King's own pet | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rock | gerund | Horse | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=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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