The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 116
And off he went, leaving the baby between the dragon's fore-paws, laughing and crowing with pleasure at the very large purr of it.
Who acts: man, purr · What happens: go, leave, laugh, crow, purr · To what, where: baby, fore paws
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, purr), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 paws | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paws | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 dragon | case |
| 13 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paws | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fore | punct |
| 15 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 baby | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughing | punct |
| 17 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 leaving | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crowing | cc |
| 19 | crowing | crow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 laughing | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 pleasure | case |
| 21 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crowing | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 purr | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 purr | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 large | advmod |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 purr | amod |
| 26 | purr | purr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crowing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 purr | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | off property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | man not said here | the baby | the dragon's fore paws | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme between paw=Location | |||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | man not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | crow | gerund | man not said here | with pleasure; at the large purr of purr | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at purr=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | purr | purr | nom purr «event intransitive»: of=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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