The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 79
But when Tom got to the pillar, he saw that he would not need to climb to the top to find out what the dog was barking at.
Who acts: Tom, dog · What happens: get, see, not need, climb, find out, bark · To what, where: top · 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, dog), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 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 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 need | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 need | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 need | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 need | advmod |
| 15 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 climb | mark |
| 17 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 need | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climb | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 climb | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 find | compound:prt |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 barking | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dog | det |
| 26 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 barking | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 barking | aux |
| 28 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 find | ccomp |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 barking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Tom | to the pillar result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pillar=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Tom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not need | would | Tom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | climb not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 5 | find out | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | bark | past · progressive | the dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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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