The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 47

So the griffin rolled over and over, one end of it fighting with the other, till the eagle end pecked the lion end to death, and the lion end tore the eagle end with its claws till it died.

Who acts: griffin, one end, eagle end, lion end, half · What happens: roll, fight, peck, tore, die · To what, where: one end, lion end, eagle end

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, one end, eagle end, lion end), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 rolled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 griffin	det
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	nsubj
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 rolled	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 over	cc
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 over	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 end	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 end	nummod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 end	nmod
13	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 end	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fighting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pecked	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 pecked	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
20	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	compound
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pecked	nsubj
22	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 end	det
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	compound
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pecked	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 death	case
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pecked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tore	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tore	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 end	det
31	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 end	compound
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tore	nsubj
33	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 end	det
35	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 end	compound
36	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tore	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 claws	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 claws	nmod:poss
39	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tore	obl
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 died	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 died	nsubj
42	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tore	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roll	past	the griffin	one end of half	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fight	gerund	one end of half not said here		with the other	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with other=Co-Agent
3	peck	past	the eagle end	the lion end	to death result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent end=Patient to death=Result
4	tore	past	the lion end	the eagle end	with half's claws	tree rules
5	die	past	half			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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