The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 92

And as the coach went through the town he had to bite his tongue to be quite sure it was real, because if his tongue was real it showed he wasn't dreaming.

Who acts: coach, town, tongue, it · What happens: go, have, bite, be, show, not dream · To what, where: town, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (coach, town, tongue, it), 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	_	5 went	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coach	det
4	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 town	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bite	mark
12	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tongue	nmod:poss
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bite	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	18 sure	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 sure	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 sure	advmod
18	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bite	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 real	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 real	cop
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sure	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 showed	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 real	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 real	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tongue	nmod:poss
26	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 real	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 real	cop
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 showed	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 showed	nsubj
30	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dreaming	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dreaming	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 dreaming	advmod
34	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 showed	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the coach		the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location
2	have	past	coach	the town not said here			tree rules
3	bite	to-infinitive	the town not said here	coach's tongue			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive	the town not said here			sure property	tree rules
5	is	past	tongue			real property	tree rules
6	is	past	coach's tongue			real property	tree rules
7	show	past	it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	not dream	past · progressive	coach				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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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