The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 57
The dark arch that led to the witch's cave was hung with a black-and-yellow fringe of live snakes.
Who acts: dark arch · What happens: lead, hang · To what, where: dark arch
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 (dark arch), 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 | 3 arch | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arch | amod |
| 3 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arch | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cave | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 witch | case |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hung | aux:pass |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 fringe | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fringe | det |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fringe | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 yellow | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 yellow | cc |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fringe | amod |
| 20 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 snakes | case |
| 22 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 snakes | amod |
| 23 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fringe | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the dark arch | to the witch's cave | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to cave=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | past · passive | the dark arch | with a black yellow fringe of live snakes | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fringe=Instrument |
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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