The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 9
The paper said that among the beautiful presents of the bridegroom to the bride was an enormous elephant, on which the bridal pair made their wedding tour.
Who acts: paper, bridal pair, elephants · What happens: say, be, make, tour · To what, where: enormous elephant, wedding tour · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (paper, bridal pair, elephants), 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 paper | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 elephant | mark |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 presents | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presents | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 presents | amod |
| 8 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 elephant | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bridegroom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridegroom | det |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presents | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bride | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bride | det |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bridegroom | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 elephant | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 elephant | det |
| 17 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 elephant | amod |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 made | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 23 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pair | amod |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 elephant | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tour | compound |
| 28 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the paper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a enormous elephant | among the beautiful presents of the bridegroom to the bride | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the bridal pair | elephants's wedding tour | on a enormous elephant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tour=Product | |||
| 4 | tour | elephants = elephant | nom tour «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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