The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 132
And the magician was safe between the Belgian hares, and couldn't see anything but darkness, or do anything but choke.
Who acts: magician · What happens: be, not see, do · To what, where: anything
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 (magician), 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 | _ | 5 safe | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safe | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | cop |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 hares | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hares | det |
| 8 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hares | amod |
| 9 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 safe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | parataxis |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 darkness | cc |
| 17 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 anything | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | conj |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 choke | cc |
| 23 | choke | choke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anything | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the magician | between the Belgian hares; safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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