The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 77
So Tom went on, looking at the rabbits and watching the morning grow more and more red and golden.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: go on, look, watch, grow
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.
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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 rabbits | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rabbits | det |
| 9 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watching | cc |
| 11 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 looking | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watching | obj |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 grow | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 red | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 red | advmod |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 more | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 golden | cc |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 red | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Tom | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | at the rabbits | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rabbit=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | morning | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | present | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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