The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 75
Then the children crept on tiptoe to a crack in the rocks and got in.
Who acts: children · What happens: creep, get in · To what, where: tiptoe
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 (children), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 crept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 tiptoe | case |
| 6 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 crack | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crack | det |
| 9 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crept | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the children | tiptoe | then | to a crack; in the rocks | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to crack=Destination | ||
| 2 | get in | past | the children not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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