The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 69
"I'll go to the pillar," thought Tom, as he went through the town.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: go, think · To what, where: pillar, town · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:232): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pillar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pillar | det |
| 7 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | advcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | Tom | the pillar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pillar=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Tom | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Tom | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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