The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 99
So Tom left him and went back to the town with the news, and everyone was so excited at a real live dragon's being on the island--a thing that had never happened before--that they all went out to look at it, instead of going to the prize-giving, and the Lord Chief Schoolmaster went with the rest.
Who acts: Tom, everyone, thing, wings, Lord Chief · What happens: leave, go back, be, not happen, go out, look · To what, where: bun, island
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, everyone, thing, wings), 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 left | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 news | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 news | det |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 excited | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 excited | cc |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 excited | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 excited | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 excited | advmod |
| 19 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 left | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 island | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dragon | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dragon | amod |
| 23 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dragon | amod |
| 24 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 island | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 dragon | case |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 island | cop |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 island | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 island | det |
| 29 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 excited | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 thing | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 thing | det |
| 32 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 island | conj |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 happened | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 happened | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 happened | advmod |
| 36 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 thing | acl:relcl |
| 37 | before | before | ADV | _ | 36 happened | advmod |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 went | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 went | nsubj |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 went | advmod |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 went | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 look | mark |
| 45 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 went | advcl |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 look | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 going | punct |
| 49 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 51 going | mark |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 instead | fixed |
| 51 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 left | advcl |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 the | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 going | xcomp |
| 54 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 giving | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 prize | punct |
| 56 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 53 the | acl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 went | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 went | cc |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 Chief | det |
| 60 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 Chief | compound |
| 61 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 went | nsubj |
| 62 | Schoolmaster | Schoolmaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 Chief | flat |
| 63 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 giving | conj |
| 64 | with | with | ADP | _ | 66 rest | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 rest | det |
| 66 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 went | obl |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Tom | bun | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | Tom not said here | to the town result; with the news | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | everyone | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | a real live dragon's island and a thing | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not happen | past · perfect | a thing | before property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go out | past | wings = wing | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | look | to-infinitive | wings = wing not said here | at thing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go | gerund | Tom not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 10 | go | past | the Lord Chief | with the rest | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rest=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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