The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 34

The doctor carried the brush very carefully across the room, and held the point of it under his microscope--then he twisted the brass screws of the microscope, and looked through the top with one eye.

Who acts: doctor · What happens: carry, hold, twist, look, point · To what, where: brush, room, point, microscope, brass screws

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 (doctor), 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 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brush	det
5	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 carefully	advmod
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 held	cc
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 point	det
15	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 point	nmod
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 microscope	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 microscope	nmod:poss
20	microscope	microscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 twisted	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 twisted	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 twisted	nsubj
24	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 screws	det
26	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 screws	compound
27	screws	screw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 twisted	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 microscope	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 microscope	det
30	microscope	microscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 screws	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 looked	cc
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 top	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 top	det
36	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 eye	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 eye	nummod
39	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the doctor	the brush	the room		carefully property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
2	hold	past	the doctor not said here	the point of point	doctor's microscope			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent point=Theme under microscope=Location
3	twist	past	doctor	the brass screws of the microscope		then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent screw=Theme
4	look	past	the doctor not said here				with one eye; through the top	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through top=Theme
5	point			point				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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