The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 121
And they tried to get at Tom--but the guinea pig stood in the way.
Who acts: defenses, guinea pig · What happens: try, get, stand · To what, where: Tom, way
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: who acts (defenses, guinea pig), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tried | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Tom | case |
| 7 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pig | det |
| 11 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pig | compound |
| 12 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | defenses = defense | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | defenses = defense not said here | Tom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the guinea pig | the way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
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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