The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 66
So when the largest elephant in the Zoo was carried off by a dragon, the papers gave up pretending--and put ALARMING PLAGUE OF DRAGONS at the top of the paper.
Who acts: dragon, papers · What happens: carry off, give up, pretend, put, plague · To what, where: largest elephant, ALARMING PLAGUE, top, DRAGONS
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 (dragon, papers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 carried | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elephant | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 elephant | amod |
| 5 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Zoo | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Zoo | det |
| 8 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 elephant | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | aux:pass |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 dragon | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 papers | det |
| 17 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 gave | advcl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gave | conj |
| 24 | ALARMING | alarming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 PLAGUE | amod |
| 25 | PLAGUE | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obj |
| 26 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 27 DRAGONS | case |
| 27 | DRAGONS | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 PLAGUE | nmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 top | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 top | det |
| 30 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 paper | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 paper | det |
| 33 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 top | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past · passive | a dragon | the largest elephant in the Zoo | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | the papers | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | the papers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | put | participle | the papers not said here | ALARMING PLAGUE of DRAGONS | the top of the paper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plague=Theme at top=Destination | |||
| 5 | plague | DRAGONS | nom plague «state 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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