The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 20
It all began with Effie's getting something in her eye.
Who acts: Country · What happens: begin, get · To what, where: something, eye
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Country), 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 | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 7 getting | mark |
| 5 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Effie | case |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 began | advcl |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 getting | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 eye | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eye | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Country | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | Country not said here | something | Effie's eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
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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