The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 23

His tail was long and thick and jointed and white, and had little legs to it, any number of them--far too many--so that it looked like a very large fat silkworm; and his claws were as long as lessons and as sharp as bayonets.

Who acts: tail, claws · What happens: be, have, look · To what, where: little legs, tail

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 (tail, claws), 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 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thick	cc
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jointed	cc
8	jointed	jointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 white	cc
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	conj
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 legs	amod
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 number	punct
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 number	det
20	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 number	nmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 many	punct
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 many	advmod
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 looked	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	conj
32	like	like	ADP	_	37 silkworm	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 silkworm	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 large	advmod
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 silkworm	amod
36	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 silkworm	amod
37	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 long	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 long	cc
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 claws	nmod:poss
41	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 long	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 long	cop
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 long	advmod
44	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 lessons	case
46	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 long	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sharp	cc
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 sharp	advmod
49	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 long	conj
50	as	as	ADP	_	51 bayonets	case
51	bayonets	bayonet	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 sharp	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	beard's tail			long property	tree rules
2	be		beard's tail not said here				tree rules
3	be		beard's tail not said here				tree rules
4	be		beard's tail not said here				tree rules
5	have	past	beard's tail not said here	little legs	tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
6	be		beard's tail not said here			far property	tree rules
7	look	past	tail			like a large fat silkworm	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	is	past	beard's claws			as lessons; long property	tree rules
9	be		beard's claws not said here			as bayonets	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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