The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 22
His wings were white with the salt that had settled on them from the spray of the sea.
Who acts: wings · What happens: be, settle · To what, where: salt, spray
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 (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 white | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 white | cop |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 salt | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 salt | det |
| 7 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 settled | aux |
| 10 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 salt | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 settled | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 spray | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spray | det |
| 15 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 settled | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spray | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | beard's wings | with the salt; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | settle | past · perfect · passive | the salt | the spray of the sea | on wings = wing | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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