The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 34
And these flames were the Aurora Borealis, which the children had seen as far away as Forest Hill.
Who acts: flames · What happens: be, see · To what, where: Aurora Borealis, children
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 (flames), 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 | _ | 7 Borealis | cc |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 flames | det |
| 3 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Borealis | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Borealis | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Borealis | det |
| 6 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Borealis | compound |
| 7 | Borealis | Borealis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seen | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Borealis | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Hill | case |
| 18 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Hill | compound |
| 19 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Borealis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this flames | the Aurora Borealis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the children | as Forest Hill; away property | tree rules |
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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