The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 91
They saw the carts delivering the dead dragons at the County Council offices, and they saw St. George asleep under the dragonproof veil.
Who acts: taps, carts · What happens: see, deliver · To what, where: carts, dead dragons, Council offices, George
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, carts), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 carts | det |
| 4 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | delivering | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 carts | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragons | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragons | amod |
| 8 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 delivering | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 offices | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 offices | det |
| 11 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Council | compound |
| 12 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 offices | compound |
| 13 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 delivering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 18 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 George | nmod:desc |
| 19 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saw | xcomp |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 veil | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 veil | det |
| 23 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 veil | amod |
| 24 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asleep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | taps = tap | the carts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cart=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | deliver | gerund | the carts not said here | the dead dragons | the Council offices | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient | |||
| 3 | see | past | taps = tap | George St. | asleep property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer george=Stimulus |
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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