The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 81
So they opened the door at once just to peep in, and then they remembered what St. George had said.
Who acts: dragons, George · What happens: open, peep, remember, say · To what, where: door · 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 (dragons, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 opened | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 peep | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 peep | mark |
| 10 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 peep | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 remembered | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 remembered | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remembered | nsubj |
| 16 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 remembered | obj |
| 18 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 George | nmod:desc |
| 19 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | dragons = dragon | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | peep | to-infinitive | dragons = dragon not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remember | past | dragons = dragon | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | George St. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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