The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 65
The crowd cheered wildly--and the Princess from her balcony clapped her hands.
Who acts: crowd, Princess · What happens: cheer, clap · To what, where: hands
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 (crowd, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheered | nsubj |
| 3 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 3 cheered | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 clapped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clapped | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clapped | nsubj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 balcony | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 balcony | nmod:poss |
| 11 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Princess | nmod |
| 12 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheered | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clapped | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past | the crowd | wildly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | clap | past | the Princess from Princess's balcony | Princess's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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