The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 47
And he fell back into his marble and was fast asleep again in a moment.
Who acts: George · What happens: fall back, be · To what, where: marble
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fell | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 marble | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 marble | nmod:poss |
| 7 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asleep | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asleep | cop |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 asleep | advmod |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall back | past | George | again; moment | into George's marble result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into marble=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | George not said here | asleep, fast property | tree rules |
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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