The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 21
His head was white with age--and his beard had grown so long that he caught his claws in it as he walked.
Who acts: head, beard · What happens: be, grow, catch, walk · To what, where: claws, head
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, beard), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 white | cop |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 age | case |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 grown | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grown | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beard | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grown | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grown | aux |
| 12 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 white | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 grown | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 caught | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grown | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 claws | nmod:poss |
| 19 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 caught | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 walked | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 walked | nsubj |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tide's head | with age | white property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect | tide's beard | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | beard | tide's claws | head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | |||
| 4 | walk | past | beard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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