The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 73
He caught up _The Book of Beasts_ and jumped on the back of the gentle, beautiful Hippogriff, and leaning down he whispered in the sharp, white ear: "Fly, dear Hippogriff, fly your very fastest to the Pebbly Waste."
Who acts: King · What happens: catch up, jump, lean down, whisper, fly · To what, where: Book, back, sharp white ear, fastest · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 caught | compound:prt |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Book | det |
| 6 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Beasts | case |
| 8 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Book | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jumped | cc |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 back | det |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jumped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Hippogriff | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hippogriff | det |
| 17 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Hippogriff | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gentle | punct |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Hippogriff | amod |
| 20 | Hippogriff | hippogriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 whispered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 whispered | cc |
| 23 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 whispered | csubj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 leaning | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 whispered | nsubj |
| 26 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 ear | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ear | det |
| 29 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ear | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sharp | punct |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ear | amod |
| 32 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 whispered | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 Fly | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Fly | punct |
| 35 | Fly | Fly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 ear | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Hippogriff | punct |
| 37 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Hippogriff | amod |
| 38 | Hippogriff | hippogriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Fly | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fly | punct |
| 40 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 whispered | ccomp |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 fastest | nmod:poss |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 fastest | advmod |
| 43 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 fly | obl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 Waste | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Waste | det |
| 46 | Pebbly | pebbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Waste | amod |
| 47 | Waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fly | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | King | the Book of Beasts | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | King not said here | the back of the gentle beautiful Hippogriff | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lean down | gerund | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | past | King | the sharp white ear Fly | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fly in a quote | infinitive | your fastest | to the Pebbly Waste result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to waste=Result |
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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