The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 129
Around and around the pillar ran the Princess.
Who acts: pillar · What happens: run · To what, where: Princess
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 (pillar), 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 | Around | around | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 around | cc |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 1 Around | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pillar | det |
| 5 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the pillar | the Princess | around property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Agent |
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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