The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 126

Mary Ann looked around the big pillar and called to the dragon: "Bo! you can't catch me," and began to run as fast as ever she could, and the dragon ran after her.

Who acts: Mary, Bo, dragon · What happens: look, call, not catch, begin, run · To what, where: dragon, Mary · 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: who acts (Mary, Bo, dragon), 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	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
2	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mary	flat
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	7 pillar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pillar	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pillar	amod
7	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pillar	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 dragon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 catch	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Bo	punct
15	Bo	Bo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 catch	nsubj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Bo	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 catch	nsubj
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 catch	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 catch	advmod
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 catch	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 catch	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 catch	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 run	mark
27	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 run	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 could	mark
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 could	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 could	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ran	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ran	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dragon	det
37	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ran	nsubj
38	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
39	after	after	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ran	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Mary				around the big pillar	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around pillar=Theme
2	call speech: express	participle	Mary not said here		the dragon			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dragon=Recipient
3	not catch in a quote	can	Bo	Mary				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	begin	past	Mary not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	run	to-infinitive	Mary not said here				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	past	the dragon			after Bo		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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