The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 17

And there, sure enough, in the collector's butterfly net sat the great Arctic moth, listening attentively to the conversation.

What happens: sit, listen · To what, where: great Arctic moth, butterfly net

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: 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	_	4 sure	cc
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sure	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 sure	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 net	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collector	det
9	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 net	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 collector	case
11	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 net	compound
12	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moth	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moth	amod
16	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moth	amod
17	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 listening	punct
19	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
20	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	19 listening	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 conversation	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 conversation	det
23	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 listening	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the great Arctic moth		the collector's butterfly net			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent moth=Theme in net=Location
2	listen	gerund						to the conversation; attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/17/