The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 67
So when it began to be pretty pink-and-yellow daylight, Tom got up and went out.
Who acts: matter, Tom · What happens: begin, be, get up, go out
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 (matter, Tom), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 began | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pink | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pink | cop |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 pink | advmod |
| 8 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 began | xcomp |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 daylight | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 daylight | cc |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 daylight | amod |
| 13 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pink | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 15 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 got | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | matter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | matter not said here | yellow daylight obl; pink, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | Tom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go out | past | Tom not said here | vn interact-36.6 «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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