The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 44
And the griffin, waking suddenly from his dreams, twisted his large neck around to look for the lion, saw a lion's flank, and fastened its eagle beak in it.
Who acts: griffin · What happens: wake, twist, look, see, fasten, dream · To what, where: dreams, large neck, flank, eagle beak
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 (griffin), 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 | _ | 11 twisted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twisted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 waking | punct |
| 5 | waking | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 griffin | acl |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 waking | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 dreams | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 griffin | punct |
| 11 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 neck | amod |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twisted | obj |
| 15 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 twisted | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 twisted | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 lion | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 twisted | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lion | det |
| 24 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flank | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 lion | case |
| 26 | flank | flank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fastened | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fastened | cc |
| 29 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | conj |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 beak | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 beak | compound |
| 32 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fastened | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fastened | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | gerund | the griffin not said here | griffin's dreams | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | twist | past | the griffin | griffin's large neck | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the griffin not said here | for the lion | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for lion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | a lion's flank | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flank=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | fasten | past | flank's eagle beak | flank | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dream | griffin | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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