The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 15
And now John's hair was getting gray, and there was hardly ever enough to eat.
Who acts: hair · What happens: get, be, eat
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 (hair), 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 | _ | 7 getting | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 getting | advmod |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 John | case |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 getting | aux |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 getting | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 getting | conj |
| 13 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 15 enough | advmod |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 enough | advmod |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 was | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 enough | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | John's hair | now | gray property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | be | past | John's hair not said here | there | enough property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | John's hair not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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