The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 3
By the Snowdon railway of course.
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 railway | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 railway | det |
| 3 | Snowdon | Snowdon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 railway | compound |
| 4 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 railway | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 railway | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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