The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 98
And he took a run on the frozen snow, and Jane took a run when she saw him do it, and the next moment they were sliding away, each with feet half a yard apart, along the great slide that leads to the North Pole.
Who acts: way, Jane, next moment, great slide · What happens: take, freeze, see, do, slide away, lead · To what, where: run, frozen snow, way
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 (way, Jane, next moment, great slide), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 run | det |
| 5 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 snow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snow | det |
| 8 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 snow | amod |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 run | det |
| 15 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saw | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sliding | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sliding | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moment | det |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 moment | amod |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sliding | nsubj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sliding | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sliding | aux |
| 29 | sliding | slide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 sliding | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 each | punct |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 took | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 feet | case |
| 34 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 35 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 37 yard | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 yard | det |
| 37 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 38 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 slide | punct |
| 40 | along | along | ADP | _ | 43 slide | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 slide | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 slide | amod |
| 43 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 leads | nsubj |
| 45 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 slide | acl:relcl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 Pole | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Pole | det |
| 48 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Pole | compound |
| 49 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 leads | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | way | a run | the frozen snow | with feet; each obl; apart property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | take | past | Jane | a run | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Jane | way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | way not said here | run | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | slide away | past · progressive | the next moment | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lead | present | the great slide | to the North Pole | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to pole=Patient |
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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