The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 72
The ones as big as earwigs got in the soap, and they got in the butter.
Who acts: ones, sizes · What happens: get · To what, where: soap, butter
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 (ones, sizes), 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 ones | det |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 big | advmod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ones | amod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 earwigs | case |
| 6 | earwigs | earwig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 big | obl |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 soap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soap | det |
| 10 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 butter | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 butter | det |
| 17 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the ones | the soap | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | get | past | sizes = size | the butter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/5/72/