The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 95
The rows of trees went as straight as ruled lines away--away and away--and at the other end of them shone the Aurora Borealis.
Who acts: rows, Aurora Borealis · What happens: go, rule, shine · To what, where: other end
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 (rows, Aurora Borealis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:678): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rows | det |
| 2 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 trees | case |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rows | nmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 straight | advmod |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 lines | case |
| 9 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lines | amod |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 straight | obl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 away | punct |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 away | cc |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 away | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 shone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shone | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 end | amod |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shone | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 end | nmod |
| 24 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Borealis | det |
| 26 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Borealis | compound |
| 27 | Borealis | Borealis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 shone | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the rows of trees | away, straight property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | shine | past | the Aurora Borealis | at the other end of trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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