The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 50
I always liked it better than the dragon: It wasn't so hot-tempered."
Who acts: I · What happens: like, not temper · To what, where: 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: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 liked | advmod |
| 3 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 liked | obj |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 liked | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 tempered | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tempered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tempered | aux:pass |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tempered | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 tempered | advmod |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tempered | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hot | punct |
| 16 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 liked | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liked | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | I | eagle | always, well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | not temper | past · passive | eagle | 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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