The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 8
And then the doom of the bad sealskin dwarfs fell suddenly on them.
Who acts: doom · What happens: fall, doom · To what, where: bad sealskin dwarfs
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 (doom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 fell | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doom | det |
| 4 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dwarfs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dwarfs | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dwarfs | amod |
| 8 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dwarfs | compound |
| 9 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 doom | nmod |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the doom of the bad sealskin dwarfs | then | on dwarfs = dwarf; suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location | |||
| 2 | doom | the bad sealskin dwarfs | nom doom «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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