The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 12
I fastened the fur with it when it caught in the nail on the greenhouse door.
Who acts: I, fur · What happens: fasten, catch · To what, where: fur, nail
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 (I, fur), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fastened | nsubj |
| 2 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fur | det |
| 4 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fastened | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fastened | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 caught | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fastened | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 nail | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nail | det |
| 12 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | greenhouse | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | I | the fur | with fur | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient with it=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | catch | past | fur | the nail | on the greenhouse door | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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