The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 200
He met the lame giant at the gate of the town, and the giant banged on the dragon with his club as if he were banging an iron foundry, and the dragon behaved like a smelting works--all fire and smoke.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: meet, bang, behave, work · To what, where: lame giant, gate, giant, iron foundry, dragon, fire
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), 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 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 4 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 giant | amod |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gate | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 banged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 banged | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 banged | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | banged | bang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 met | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 dragon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 banged | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 club | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 club | nmod:poss |
| 22 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dragon | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 banging | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 banging | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 banging | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 banging | aux |
| 27 | banging | bang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 banged | advcl |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 foundry | det |
| 29 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 foundry | compound |
| 30 | foundry | foundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 banging | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 works | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 works | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dragon | det |
| 34 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 works | nsubj |
| 35 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 dragon | acl |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 smelting | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 smelting | det |
| 38 | smelting | smelting | NOUN | _ | 35 behaved | obl |
| 39 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | parataxis |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 fire | punct |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 fire | det |
| 42 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 works | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 smoke | cc |
| 44 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fire | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Dragon | the lame giant | the gate of the town | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | bang | participle | Dragon not said here | the giant | on the dragon with Dragon's club | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dragon=Location | |||
| 3 | bang | past · progressive | Dragon | a iron foundry | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foundry=Theme | ||||
| 4 | behave | participle | the dragon not said here | like a smelting | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like smelting=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | work | present | the dragon | all fire and smoke | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent fire=Material |
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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