The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 61
They joined hands as they came near the fires and danced around in a ring.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: join, come, dance around · To what, where: hands, fires, ring
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 (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 joined | nsubj |
| 2 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 joined | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 joined | advcl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 fires | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fires | det |
| 9 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 danced | cc |
| 11 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 joined | conj |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 danced | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ring | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 danced | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | eyes = eye | hands | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | eyes = eye | the fires | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near fire=Location | ||||
| 3 | dance around | past | eyes = eye not said here | a ring | around property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=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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