The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 46

Who lights it, and what's it there for?"

What happens: light, be · To what, where: Borealis

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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 lights	nsubj
2	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lights	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 there	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 there	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 there	nsubj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lights	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 there	case
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lights	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lights	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present		Borealis					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	is	present						there property	tree rules

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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