The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 44
And there's a looking glass, too; shows you all the world and what's going on.
Who acts: looking glass · What happens: be, look, show, go on · To what, where: world, you
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 (looking glass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 's | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 glass | det |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 glass | amod |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 too | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 's | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 shows | punct |
| 10 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 's | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 shows | iobj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 world | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shows | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 going | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 shows | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 going | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a looking glass | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | show | present | all world | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient world=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go on | present · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/44/