The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 141
He patted the baby with his claw, but it screamed more than ever.
Who acts: Dragon, claw · What happens: pat, scream · To what, where: baby, more
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 (Dragon, claw), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 patted | nsubj |
| 2 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patted | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 claw | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 claw | nmod:poss |
| 7 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 screamed | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 screamed | nsubj |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 patted | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 screamed | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 more | fixed |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 screamed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 patted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | past | Dragon | the baby | with Dragon's claw | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent baby=Experiencer with claw=Instrument | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | claw | more | ever | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
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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