The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 81
He was flying very feebly, and looking around everywhere for a tree, for it was just on the stroke of twelve, the sun was shining like a gold guinea in the blue sky, and there was not a tree for a hundred miles.
Who acts: Dragon, haste, sun · What happens: fly, look around, be, shine, not be · To what, where: flying tree
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, haste, sun), 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 | 3 flying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flying | aux |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 tree | amod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 feebly | advmod |
| 5 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 3 flying | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looking | cc |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flying | conj |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 everywhere | advmod |
| 10 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 looking | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stroke | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 stroke | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stroke | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stroke | cop |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 stroke | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 stroke | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stroke | det |
| 21 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 twelve | case |
| 23 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 stroke | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shining | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun | det |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shining | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 shining | aux |
| 28 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 stroke | conj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 guinea | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 guinea | det |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 guinea | compound |
| 32 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shining | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 sky | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sky | det |
| 35 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sky | amod |
| 36 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 guinea | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 was | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 was | cc |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 was | expl |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 tree | cop |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 tree | advmod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 tree | det |
| 43 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 miles | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 hundred | det |
| 46 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 miles | nummod |
| 47 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 tree | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · progressive | Dragon | feebly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look around | gerund | Dragon not said here | for a tree; everywhere property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | haste | for the stroke; of twelve | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | like a gold guinea in the blue sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is a | past | a flying tree | for hundred miles | tree rules |
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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