The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 83
Then the police stuck up great wood and canvas towers covered with patent glue.
Who acts: police · What happens: stick up, cover · To what, where: great wood, canvas towers
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 (police), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stuck | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 police | det |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stuck | compound:prt |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wood | amod |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 towers | cc |
| 9 | canvas | canvas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 towers | compound |
| 10 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wood | conj |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 towers | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 glue | case |
| 13 | patent | patent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 glue | amod |
| 14 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up | participle | the police | great wood and canvas towers | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | canvas towers not said here | with patent glue | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with glue=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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