The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 21
"Oh, do let's go to the Zoological Gardens and ride on the big guinea pig and feed the rabbits and hear the dormouse asleep."
Who acts: you, 's · What happens: let, go, ride, feed, hear · To what, where: 's, Zoological Gardens, rabbits, dormouse
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 's), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Gardens | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gardens | det |
| 10 | Zoological | Zoological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gardens | compound |
| 11 | Gardens | Garden | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ride | cc |
| 13 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 pig | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pig | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pig | amod |
| 17 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pig | compound |
| 18 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ride | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feed | cc |
| 20 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ride | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rabbits | det |
| 22 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 feed | iobj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hear | cc |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 feed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dormouse | det |
| 26 | dormouse | dormouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hear | obj |
| 27 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hear | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | the Zoological Gardens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ride in a quote | present | you not said here | on the big guinea pig | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feed in a quote | present | you not said here | the rabbits | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | present | you not said here | the dormouse | asleep property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dormouse=Stimulus |
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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