The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 88
As soon as Lionel saw that the Dragon had really been obliged to go and sit under his own palm tree because it was the only tree there, he jumped off his horse and shut the book with a bang.
Who acts: Lionel, page, Dragon · What happens: see, oblige, go, sit, be, jump off · To what, where: Dragon, own palm tree, only tree, horse, book · Speech: someone speaks here
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, page, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 obliged | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dragon | det |
| 8 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 obliged | aux |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 obliged | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 obliged | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sit | cc |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tree | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 20 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | obl |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 tree | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tree | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tree | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 26 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tree | amod |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | obl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 tree | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 jumped | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 jumped | nsubj |
| 31 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 jumped | compound:prt |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 horse | nmod:poss |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 jumped | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 shut | cc |
| 36 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 jumped | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 book | det |
| 38 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shut | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 bang | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bang | det |
| 41 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 book | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Lionel | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · perfect · passive | the Dragon | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sit | infinitive | Dragon's own palm tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | page | the only tree | there | tree rules | |||
| 6 | jump off | past | Dragon | Dragon's horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Agent | ||||
| 7 | shut | infinitive | Dragon not said here | the book | with a bang | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent book=Patient with bang=Instrument |
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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