The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 34
The dragon rattled and tinkled as he went, exactly like the cut-glass chandelier when you touch it, as you are strictly forbidden to do.
Who acts: way, you · What happens: rattle, tinkle, go, touch, forbid, do · To what, where: dragon, you
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 (way, you), 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 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dragon | acl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tinkled | cc |
| 5 | tinkled | tinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rattled | conj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tinkled | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chandelier | punct |
| 10 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 16 chandelier | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 chandelier | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chandelier | det |
| 13 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glass | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chandelier | compound |
| 16 | chandelier | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 touch | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 touch | nsubj |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 chandelier | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 touch | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 forbidden | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 forbidden | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 forbidden | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 25 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 26 forbidden | advmod |
| 26 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 touch | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 forbidden | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | participle | the dragon not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tinkle | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | way | like the glass chandelier | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | touch | present | you | dragon | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | forbid | present · passive | you | strictly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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