The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 48
And so the griffin that was made of a lion and an eagle perished, exactly as if it had been made of Kilkenny cats.
What happens: make, perish · To what, where: griffin, eagle
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: 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 | _ | 14 perished | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 perished | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 griffin | det |
| 4 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 griffin | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lion | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eagle | cc |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eagle | det |
| 13 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lion | conj |
| 14 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 22 made | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 perished | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cats | case |
| 24 | Kilkenny | Kilkenny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cats | compound |
| 25 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 perished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the griffin | of a lion and a eagle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | perish | participle · passive | the griffin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | eagle | of Kilkenny cats; exactly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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