The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 96

The griffin sleeps at teatime every day, but the dragon sleeps every day for five minutes, and every day it is three minutes later than it was the day before."

Who acts: griffin, dragon, day · What happens: sleep, be · To what, where: teatime

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, dragon, day), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 griffin	det
2	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	nsubj
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 teatime	case
5	teatime	teatime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sleeps	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sleeps	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleeps	nsubj
12	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleeps	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleeps	obl:unmarked
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 minutes	case
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 minutes	nummod
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sleeps	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 day	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 day	cc
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 day	nsubj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 day	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 day	cop
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 minutes	nummod
25	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 later	obl:unmarked
26	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 day	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	31 day	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 day	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 day	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	obl:unmarked
32	before	before	ADV	_	31 day	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleeps	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sleeps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	the griffin	teatime	day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	present	the dragon		day; minute		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	every day		than the day	before, late property	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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