The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 90
Then they saw that one side of the room was just a big looking glass, and when you looked in it you could see everything that was going on in the world--and all at once, too, which is not like most looking glasses.
Who acts: taps, one side, you · What happens: see, look, be, go on, not be · To what, where: big looking glass, glass, everything, world · 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 (taps, one side, you), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 glass | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 side | nummod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glass | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glass | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 glass | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 glass | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 glass | amod |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 glass | amod |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 looked | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | obl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 looked | ccomp |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 going | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | aux |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 everything | acl:relcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 going | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 going | obl |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 all | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 all | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 saw | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 once | case |
| 38 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 all | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 glasses | punct |
| 40 | too | too | ADV | _ | 48 glasses | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 glasses | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 glasses | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 glasses | cop |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 glasses | advmod |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 48 glasses | case |
| 46 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 glasses | amod |
| 47 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 glasses | amod |
| 48 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | taps = tap | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | one side of the room | a big looking glass | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | past | you | glass | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | could | you | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go on | past · progressive | the world | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location | |||||
| 7 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | not is | present | like most looking glasses | 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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