The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 115
The Princess, meantime, had run to the other side of the pillar and was peeping around it to see what was going on.
What happens: run, peep, see, go on · To what, where: Princess, other side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meantime | punct |
| 4 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Princess | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | aux |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pillar | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pillar | det |
| 14 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peeping | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 peeping | aux |
| 17 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 run | conj |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 peeping | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 peeping | advcl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 see | ccomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 going | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect · passive | the Princess and meantime | the other side of the pillar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to side=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | peep | past · progressive | around side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «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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