The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 79

Lionel jumped off the white horse's back in the very middle of the Pebbly Waste, and he hurriedly unclasped _The Book of Beasts_ and laid it open on the pebbles.

Who acts: Lionel · What happens: jump off, unclasp, lay · To what, where: back, middle, Book, Waste, pebbles

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 (Lionel), 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	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	8 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 horse	case
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 middle	advmod
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Waste	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Waste	det
15	Pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Waste	amod
16	Waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 middle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unclasped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unclasped	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 unclasped	nsubj
20	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	_	21 unclasped	advmod
21	unclasped	unclasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	parataxis
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 unclasped	punct
23	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Book	det
24	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 unclasped	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Beasts	case
26	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 Book	nmod
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 unclasped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laid	cc
29	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laid	obj
31	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 laid	xcomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 pebbles	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pebbles	det
34	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 laid	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	Lionel	the white horse's back	the middle of the Pebbly Waste		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme in middle=Trajectory
2	unclasp	past	Lionel	the Book of Beasts		hurriedly property	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
3	lay	past	Lionel not said here	Waste	the pebbles	open property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on pebble=Destination

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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