Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 0
In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies and guards a castle full of treasure.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: breathe, fly, guard · To what, where: great flames, Shrek, castle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Shrek | case |
| 2 | Shrek | Shrek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 breathes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breathes | nsubj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 big | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dragon | amod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 big | obl |
| 11 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flames | amod |
| 13 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 breathes | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flies | punct |
| 15 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 breathes | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 guards | cc |
| 17 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 breathes | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guards | obj |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 castle | amod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 treasure | case |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 breathes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | a dragon | great flames | Shrek | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | present | a dragon not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | guard | present | a dragon not said here | a castle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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