The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 3
There was no one about in the streets except dragons, and the place was simply swarming with them.
Who acts: one, place · What happens: be, swarm
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 (one, place), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 streets | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 streets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 streets | det |
| 8 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 dragons | case |
| 10 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 streets | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swarming | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swarming | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swarming | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 swarming | aux |
| 16 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 17 swarming | advmod |
| 17 | swarming | swarm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swarming | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no one in the streets except dragons | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swarm | past · progressive | the place | with hands = hand; simply property | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with they=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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