The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 98
So they left the sunshine tap alone, and they turned on the snow and left the tap full on while they went to look in the glass.
Who acts: dragons · What happens: leave, turn, leave on, go, look · To what, where: sunshine tap, snow, tap
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tap | det |
| 5 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tap | compound |
| 6 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tap | det |
| 18 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 left | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 left | compound:prt |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 went | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 went | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 glass | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 glass | det |
| 28 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | dragons = dragon | the sunshine tap | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tap=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | dragons = dragon | the snow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on snow=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leave on | past | dragons = dragon not said here | the tap | full property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tap=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | dragons = dragon | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | dragons = dragon not said here | in the glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glass=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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