The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 276
He had grown quite tame, and his rusty plates had fallen off in places, and underneath he was soft and furry to stroke.
Who acts: Dragon, rusty plates · What happens: grow, fall off, be, stroke
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, rusty plates), 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 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | aux |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 tame | advmod |
| 5 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grown | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fallen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fallen | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 plates | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plates | amod |
| 10 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fallen | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fallen | aux |
| 12 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 grown | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 fallen | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fallen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 soft | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 soft | cc |
| 18 | underneath | underneath | SCONJ | _ | 21 soft | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 soft | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 soft | cop |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grown | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 furry | cc |
| 23 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soft | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stroke | mark |
| 25 | stroke | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 furry | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | Dragon | tame property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past · perfect | Dragon's rusty plates | in places | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Dragon | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Dragon not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stroke | to-infinitive | Dragon not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: 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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