The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
But at that moment a dark shadow fell on them, and they saw that it was a dragon exactly the size of the dining room at home.
Who acts: dark shadow, armor, shadow · What happens: fall, see, be · To what, where: dragon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dark shadow, armor, shadow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shadow | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shadow | amod |
| 7 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 dragon | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dragon | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dragon | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 22 size | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 size | det |
| 22 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dragon | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 25 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 room | compound |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 size | nmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 room | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a dark shadow | moment | on armor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | armor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | shadow | a dragon | the size of the dining room at home nmod | 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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