The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 148
And he tried to quiet the baby as if it had been a young dragon.
Who acts: peace, shop · What happens: try, quiet, be · To what, where: baby
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 (peace, shop), 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 | _ | 3 tried | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 quiet | mark |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quiet | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 dragon | case |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dragon | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dragon | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 dragon | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dragon | amod |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quiet | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | peace | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | quiet not said to happen | to-infinitive | peace not said here | the baby | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | shop | as a young dragon | 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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