The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 127
When the Princess had run a half mile she stopped, dodged around a tree, and ran back to the pillar and around it, and the dragon after her.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: run, stop, dodge, run back · To what, where: half mile, dragon, tree
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 (Princess), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 run | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stopped | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mile | det |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 mile | compound |
| 8 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dodged | punct |
| 12 | dodged | dodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stopped | conj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dodged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stopped | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 pillar | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pillar | det |
| 22 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 it | cc |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pillar | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dragon | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dragon | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dragon | det |
| 29 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obl |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dragon | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | the Princess | a half mile | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Princess | the dragon after Bo | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | dodge | past | Princess not said here | a tree | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run back | past | Princess not said here | to the pillar result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pillar=Result |
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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