The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 107
They climbed up the dragon's side and dumped the children down on his icy spine, with their backs against the North Pole.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: climb up, dump down · To what, where: side, children, icy spine
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs), 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 | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 climbed | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dragon | case |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dumped | cc |
| 9 | dumped | dump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dumped | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 dumped | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 spine | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 spine | nmod:poss |
| 15 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spine | amod |
| 16 | spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dumped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 backs | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 backs | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 backs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dumped | obl |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 Pole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Pole | det |
| 23 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Pole | compound |
| 24 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 backs | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | dwarfs = dwarf | the dragon's side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dump down | past | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | the children | dragon's icy spine | with dwarfs's backs against the North Pole; down property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent child=Theme on spine=Trajectory |
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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