The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 283
And as he moved, more and more of his rusty plates fell off.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: move, fall off · To what, where: more
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 moved | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 moved | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 moved | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 more | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 more | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 plates | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 plates | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plates | amod |
| 12 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | obl |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 more | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 fell | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Dragon | more | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | Dragon not said here | of Dragon's rusty plates | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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