The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 88
And the big tap labeled "Sunshine" was turned full on.
What happens: label, turn · To what, where: big tap, Sunshine
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: 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 | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tap | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tap | amod |
| 4 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | labeled | label | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tap | acl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sunshine | punct |
| 7 | Sunshine | Sunshine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 labeled | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sunshine | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux:pass |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 full | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | label | participle | the big tap not said here | Sunshine | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sunshine=Destination | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | the big tap | full property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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