The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 84
They went boldly into the taproom, and shut the door behind them.
Who acts: dragons · What happens: go, shut · To what, where: taproom, door
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 taproom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 taproom | det |
| 6 | taproom | taproom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shut | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shut | cc |
| 9 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shut | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shut | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dragons = dragon | the taproom | boldly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into taproom=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shut | infinitive | dragons = dragon not said here | the door | behind dragons = dragon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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