The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 71
Then suddenly the King saw coming through the sky the great straggling, sprawling, wicked shape of the Red Dragon.
Who acts: King · What happens: see, come, sprawl · To what, where: great straggling, sky, wicked shape
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), 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 | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 straggling | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 straggling | amod |
| 12 | straggling | straggling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprawling | punct |
| 14 | sprawling | sprawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 coming | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shape | punct |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shape | amod |
| 17 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprawling | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Dragon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Dragon | det |
| 20 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Dragon | flat |
| 21 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shape | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | then | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | the King not said here | the great straggling | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through sky=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sprawl | gerund | the King not said here | wicked shape of the Red Dragon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shape=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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