The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 86
It was then that he saw _The Book of Beasts_ lying on the pebbles, open at the page with "Dragon" written at the bottom.
Who acts: snatch, Book · What happens: be, _, lie, write · To what, where: pebbles, page, bottom
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 (snatch, Book), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | cop |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Book | det |
| 9 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 _ | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Beasts | case |
| 11 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Book | nmod |
| 12 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | parataxis |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 _ | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 pebbles | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pebbles | det |
| 16 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 open | punct |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pebbles | amod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 page | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 page | det |
| 21 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 open | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Dragon | case |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dragon | punct |
| 24 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 page | nmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dragon | punct |
| 26 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 page | acl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 bottom | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bottom | det |
| 29 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 written | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | snatch | then | see property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | _ | present | the Book of Beasts | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the Book of Beasts not said here | the pebbles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pebble=Location | ||||
| 4 | write | participle | the page with Dragon not said here | the bottom | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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