The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 83
He is frozen now--so he sleeps curled up around the Pole--but when we have thawed him with our fires he will wake up and go and eat everybody in the world except us."
Who acts: we, dragon, our · What happens: freeze, curl up, thaw, wake up, go, eat · To what, where: dragon, Pole, everybody, world
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 (we, dragon, our), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 frozen | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frozen | aux:pass |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 frozen | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 curled | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 curled | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 curled | nsubj |
| 8 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 curled | aux:pass |
| 9 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 frozen | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 curled | compound:prt |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 Pole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pole | det |
| 13 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 curled | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 thawed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 thawed | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 thawed | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 thawed | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thawed | aux |
| 19 | thawed | thaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 frozen | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thawed | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 fires | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fires | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thawed | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wake | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 wake | aux |
| 26 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 frozen | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 wake | compound:prt |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 go | cc |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wake | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 eat | cc |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 32 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 eat | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 everybody | nmod |
| 36 | except | except | ADP | _ | 37 us | case |
| 37 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 eat | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frozen | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present · passive | dragon | now | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | curl up | present · passive | dragon | the Pole | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme around pole=Destination | ||||
| 3 | thaw | present · perfect | we | dragon | with our fires | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with fire=Instrument | |||
| 4 | wake up | future | dragon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | dragon not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | eat | infinitive | dragon not said here | everybody | the world | except us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient | ||
| 7 | fire | our | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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