The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 26
Just then a flight of dragons passed overhead, and St. George half drew his sword.
Who acts: George half · What happens: pass, draw · To what, where: dragons, flight
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 (George half), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 flight | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flight | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flight | det |
| 4 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dragons | case |
| 6 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flight | nmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dragons | acl |
| 8 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | nmod:desc |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 half | compound |
| 13 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | dragons not said here | overhead property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | George half | a flight of dragons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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