The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 36
Off he went, full speed, between the starry lamps, toward Forest Hill and the Crystal Palace.
Who acts: way · What happens: go · To what, where: full speed, starry lamps
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), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 speed | punct |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speed | amod |
| 6 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamps | punct |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 lamps | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lamps | det |
| 10 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lamps | amod |
| 11 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hill | punct |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 Hill | case |
| 14 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hill | compound |
| 15 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lamps | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Palace | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Palace | det |
| 18 | Crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Palace | amod |
| 19 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hill | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | way | full speed | the starry lamps toward Forest Hill and the Crystal Palace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between lamp=Location |
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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