The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
Then he clattered among the pebbles in his haste to get back on to his white horse, and had just jumped on when up came the Dragon.
Who acts: Lionel, Dragon · What happens: clatter, get back, have, jump on, come · To what, where: haste
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 clattered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clattered | nsubj |
| 3 | clattered | clatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 pebbles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pebbles | det |
| 6 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clattered | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 haste | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 haste | nmod:poss |
| 9 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clattered | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clattered | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 on | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clattered | parataxis |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 jumped | advmod |
| 22 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 jumped | compound:prt |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 came | advmod |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 when | compound:prt |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 jumped | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Dragon | det |
| 28 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clatter | past | Lionel | Lionel's haste | then | among the pebbles | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among pebble=Location | ||
| 2 | get back | to-infinitive | Lionel not said here | to Lionel's white horse result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to horse=Result | ||||
| 3 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | jump on | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | the Dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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