The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 26
So they went on, leaving him too, trying to go uphill towards the Crystal Palace.
Who acts: moth · What happens: go on, leave, try, go · To what, where: needle, Crystal Palace
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 (moth), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leaving | obj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 leaving | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trying | punct |
| 10 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 leaving | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trying | xcomp |
| 13 | uphill | uphill | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 Palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Palace | det |
| 16 | Crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Palace | amod |
| 17 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | moth | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | moth not said here | needle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | moth not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | moth not said here | the Crystal Palace | uphill property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Initial_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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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