The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 131
It was exactly like winding a top--only the peg was the pillar, and the dragon's tail was the string.
Who acts: dragon, peg, tail · What happens: wind, be · To what, where: top, pillar, string
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 (dragon, peg, tail), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 winding | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 winding | aux |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 winding | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 winding | mark |
| 5 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 winding | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 pillar | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 peg | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peg | det |
| 11 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pillar | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pillar | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pillar | det |
| 14 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 winding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 string | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 string | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 dragon | case |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 string | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 string | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 string | det |
| 23 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pillar | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 winding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind | past · progressive | dragon | a top | exactly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme top=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the peg | the pillar and the string | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the dragon's tail | the string | tree rules |
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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