The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 112
And the griffin does the housework--his wings are so convenient and feathery for sweeping and dusting.
Who acts: griffin, wings · What happens: do, be · To what, where: housework
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, wings), 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 | _ | 4 does | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 housework | det |
| 6 | housework | housework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 convenient | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 convenient | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 convenient | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 convenient | advmod |
| 12 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 does | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feathery | cc |
| 14 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 convenient | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 sweeping | case |
| 16 | sweeping | sweeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 convenient | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dusting | cc |
| 18 | dusting | dusting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sweeping | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the griffin | the housework | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housework=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Nigel's wings | for sweeping and dusting; convenient property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Nigel's wings not said here | tree rules |
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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