The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 270
And then the poor creature dried his eyes and looked about him, and there he saw the tub of bread and milk.
Who acts: poor creature, creature · What happens: dry, look, see · To what, where: eyes, tub
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 (poor creature, creature), 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 | _ | 6 dried | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dried | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dried | nsubj |
| 6 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dried | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dried | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 saw | expl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dried | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tub | det |
| 19 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bread | case |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tub | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 milk | cc |
| 23 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tub | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | the poor creature | creature's eyes | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | |||
| 2 | look | past | the poor creature not said here | about creature | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | creature | the tub of bread and milk | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tub=Stimulus |
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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