The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 51
"The dragon's purring pleased the baby."
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purring | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | purring | purring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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