The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 39
St. George was beginning to settle down again on his stone slab.
Who acts: George · What happens: begin, settle down · To what, where: stone slab
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), 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 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 George | nmod:desc |
| 2 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beginning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | aux |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 settle | mark |
| 6 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beginning | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 settle | compound:prt |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 settle | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 slab | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 slab | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slab | compound |
| 12 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 settle | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | George St. | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | settle down | to-infinitive | George St. not said here | George's stone slab | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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