The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 88
They were crossing a very rough, snowy field when Jane first noticed the animals.
Who acts: George, Jane · What happens: cross, notice · To what, where: rough snowy field, animals
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 (George, Jane), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossing | aux |
| 3 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 rough | advmod |
| 6 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 field | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rough | punct |
| 8 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 field | amod |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossing | obj |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 noticed | mark |
| 11 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 noticed | advmod |
| 13 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossing | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 animals | det |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 noticed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | George | a rough snowy field | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | Jane | the animals | first property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus |
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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