The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 285
He brought something in his mouth--it was a bag of gold.
Who acts: Dragon, mouth · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: something, mouth, bag
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, mouth), 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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mouth | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 bag | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bag | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bag | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bag | det |
| 11 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bag | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Dragon | something | Dragon's mouth | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | mouth | a bag | of gold | 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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