The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 84
Now, during the winter the Arctic regions come much farther south than they are marked on the map.
Who acts: Arctic regions · What happens: come, mark · To what, where: regions, map
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 (Arctic regions), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 winter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 winter | det |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 regions | det |
| 7 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 regions | amod |
| 8 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 farther | advmod |
| 11 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 south | advmod |
| 12 | south | south | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 marked | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 marked | aux:pass |
| 16 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 come | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 map | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 map | det |
| 19 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the Arctic regions | now; winter | south property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | mark | present · passive | regions = region | the map | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on map=Destination |
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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