The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 245
He's bigger than the steeple."
Who acts: Johnnie · What happens: be
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 (Johnnie), 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 | 3 bigger | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bigger | cop |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 steeple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steeple | det |
| 6 | steeple | steeple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bigger | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bigger | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Johnnie | than the steeple; big property | 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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