The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 36
And that round piece of land became, after millions of years, the Kingdom of Rotundia.
Who acts: round piece · What happens: become
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 (round piece), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 became | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 piece | det |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 piece | amod |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | nmod |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 millions | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 millions | case |
| 10 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 became | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 millions | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kingdom | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Kingdom | det |
| 15 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Rotundia | case |
| 17 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kingdom | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | that round piece of land | after millions of years | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/36/