The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 138
The raven sat down on the edge of the marble basin and tried to peck the goldfish.
Who acts: raven · What happens: sit down, try, peck · To what, where: edge, goldfish
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 (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 raven | det |
| 2 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 basin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 basin | det |
| 10 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 basin | compound |
| 11 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tried | cc |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 peck | mark |
| 15 | peck | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goldfish | det |
| 17 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 peck | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the raven | the edge of the marble basin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the raven not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | peck not said to happen | to-infinitive | the raven not said here | the goldfish | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Patient |
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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