The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 41
It looks as if the fairies were planting little shining baby poplar trees and watering them with liquid light."
Who acts: It, fairies · What happens: look, plant, shine, water · To what, where: little, poplar trees, trees
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 (It, fairies), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 planting | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 planting | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairies | det |
| 6 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 planting | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 planting | aux |
| 8 | planting | plant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looks | advcl |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 planting | obj |
| 10 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 planting | advcl |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poplar | compound |
| 12 | poplar | poplar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trees | compound |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shining | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watering | cc |
| 15 | watering | water | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 planting | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 watering | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 18 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 light | amod |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watering | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | It | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | plant | past · progressive | the fairies | little | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | the fairies not said here | poplar trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | water | gerund | the fairies not said here | trees = tree | with liquid light | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with light=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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