The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 50

"It's much more like the lampposts on the Thames Embankment," said George, who had noticed a curly thing like a tail that went twisting up the North Pole.

Who acts: lump, lampposts, George, curly thing · What happens: be, say, notice, go, twist up · To what, where: Thames Embankment, curly thing, North Pole · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lump, lampposts, George, curly thing), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lampposts	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lampposts	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lampposts	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 lampposts	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 lampposts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lampposts	det
8	lampposts	lamppost	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 Embankment	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Embankment	det
11	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Embankment	compound
12	Embankment	embankment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lampposts	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lampposts	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lampposts	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 noticed	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 noticed	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 noticed	aux
20	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 George	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noticed	obj
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 tail	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tail	det
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thing	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thing	acl:relcl
29	twisting	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 went	xcomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 twisting	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Pole	det
32	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Pole	compound
33	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 twisting	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	lump		the Thames Embankment	like the lampposts	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the lampposts				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	notice	past · perfect	George	a curly thing		like a tail	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	go	past	a curly thing				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	twist up	gerund	a curly thing not said here	the North Pole			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme pole=Result

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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