The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 80
For there, by the pillar, lay a very large purple dragon.
What happens: lay · To what, where: large purple dragon
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 there | case |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lay | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 pillar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pillar | det |
| 6 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pillar | punct |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 large | advmod |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 12 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a large purple dragon | by the pillar | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dragon=Result for there=Beneficiary |
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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