The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 82
The white-winged horse flew around and around the Dragon as he writhed on the dry pebbles.
Who acts: winged horse, Horse · What happens: wing, fly around, writhe · To what, where: dry 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 (winged horse, Horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winged | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 white | punct |
| 4 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 flew | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Dragon | cc |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 Dragon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dragon | det |
| 11 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 writhed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 writhed | nsubj |
| 14 | writhed | writhe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 pebbles | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pebbles | det |
| 17 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pebbles | amod |
| 18 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 writhed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fly around | past | the winged horse | around property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | writhe | past | Horse | the dry pebbles | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pebble=Location |
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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