The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 136
The Queen and the Princess were feeding the goldfish in the courtyard fountains with crumbs of the Princess's eighteenth birthday cake, when the King came into the courtyard, looking as black as thunder, with his black raven hopping after him.
Who acts: Princess, Queen, King, black raven · What happens: feed, fountain, come, look, hop · To what, where: goldfish, courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Queen, King, black raven), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fountains | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feeding | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 feeding | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feeding | aux |
| 7 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Queen | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goldfish | det |
| 9 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feeding | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 courtyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtyard | det |
| 12 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feeding | obl |
| 13 | fountains | fountain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 crumbs | case |
| 15 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fountains | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cake | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Princess | case |
| 20 | eighteenth | eighteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cake | amod |
| 21 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cake | compound |
| 22 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crumbs | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fountains | parataxis |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 courtyard | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 courtyard | det |
| 30 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 looking | punct |
| 32 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 came | advcl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 black | case |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 looking | obl |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 thunder | case |
| 36 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 looking | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 raven | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 raven | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 raven | nmod:poss |
| 40 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 raven | amod |
| 41 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 looking | obl |
| 42 | hopping | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 raven | acl |
| 43 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hopping | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fountains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past · progressive | the Princess | the goldfish | the courtyard | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goldfish=Value in courtyard=Location | |||
| 2 | fountain | present | the Queen | with crumbs of the Princess's eighteenth birthday cake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the King | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the King not said here | as black; as thunder; with King's black raven | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hop | gerund | King's black raven not said here | after King | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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