The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 103
The great slide runs downhill all the way, so that you keep on going faster and faster and faster.
Who acts: great slide, you · What happens: run, keep, go · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great slide, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slide | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slide | amod |
| 3 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 4 runs | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 way | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 keep | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 runs | conj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 going | mark |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 16 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 going | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 faster | cc |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 faster | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 faster | cc |
| 20 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 faster | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the great slide | all way | downhill property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | you not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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