The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 1
Then they joined hands and set out to walk to St. George's Church.
Who acts: they · What happens: join, set out, walk · To what, where: hands, Church
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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 | 3 joined | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 joined | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 joined | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 walk | mark |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 set | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Church | case |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | nmod:desc |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Church | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 George | case |
| 14 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | they | hands | then | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | they not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | they not said here | George St.'s Church | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to church=Result |
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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