The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 35
Of course there are a million ways of going south from the North Pole--so you will own that it was lucky for George and Jane when the dragon took the right way and suddenly got his heavy feet on the great slide.
Who acts: million ways, you, Pole, dragon · What happens: be, go, own, take, get · To what, where: North Pole, right way, heavy feet, great slide
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 (million ways, you, Pole, dragon), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 4 are | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 own | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 million | det |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ways | nummod |
| 7 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 are | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ways | acl |
| 10 | south | south | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Pole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pole | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Pole | compound |
| 14 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 own | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 own | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 own | aux |
| 19 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 lucky | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lucky | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lucky | cop |
| 23 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 own | ccomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 George | case |
| 25 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lucky | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Jane | cc |
| 27 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 George | conj |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 took | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dragon | det |
| 30 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | nsubj |
| 31 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 own | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 33 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 way | amod |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 got | cc |
| 36 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 37 got | advmod |
| 37 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 took | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 feet | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 feet | amod |
| 40 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 got | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 slide | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 slide | det |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 slide | amod |
| 44 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 got | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 own | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | million ways | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | million ways not said here | the North Pole | south property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from pole=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | own | future | you | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Pole | for George and Jane; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the dragon | the right way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | past | the dragon not said here | way's heavy feet | the great slide | suddenly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on slide=Source |
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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