The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 16
And all around the North Pole the snow was brown with their flat bare pelts.
Who acts: snow · What happens: be · To what, where: North Pole
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 (snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:812): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brown | cc |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 Pole | advmod |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 Pole | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pole | det |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pole | compound |
| 6 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brown | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snow | det |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brown | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brown | cop |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pelts | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pelts | amod |
| 14 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pelts | amod |
| 15 | pelts | pelt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brown | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 brown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the snow | the North Pole | with flat bare pelts; brown property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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