The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 293

And as the dragon came out of the dungeon, following Johnnie and Tina into the bright gold and blue of their wedding day, he blinked his eyes as a cat does in the sunshine, and he shook himself, and the last of his plates dropped off, and his wings with them, and he was just like a very, very extra-sized cat.

Who acts: dragon, cat, last · What happens: come out, follow, blink, do, shake, drop off · To what, where: dungeon, Johnnie, bright gold, eyes, sunshine, Dragon

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, cat, last), 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	_	27 blinked	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 blinked	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 dungeon	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dungeon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dungeon	det
9	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 following	punct
11	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
12	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 following	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Tina	cc
14	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Johnnie	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 gold	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gold	det
17	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gold	amod
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 following	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blue	cc
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gold	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 day	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 day	nmod:poss
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 day	compound
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blue	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 blinked	nsubj
27	blinked	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 blinked	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 does	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cat	det
32	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 does	nsubj
33	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 blinked	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 sunshine	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sunshine	det
36	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 does	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 shook	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 shook	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shook	nsubj
40	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 blinked	conj
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 shook	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 dropped	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 dropped	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 last	det
45	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dropped	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 plates	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 plates	nmod:poss
48	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 last	obl
49	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 shook	conj
50	off	off	ADP	_	49 dropped	compound:prt
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 wings	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 wings	cc
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 wings	nmod:poss
54	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 dropped	obl
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 wings	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 cat	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 cat	cc
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 cat	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 cat	cop
61	just	just	ADV	_	70 cat	advmod
62	like	like	ADP	_	70 cat	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 cat	det
64	very	very	ADV	_	66 very	advmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 very	punct
66	very	very	ADV	_	67 extra	advmod
67	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 sized	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 extra	punct
69	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	70 cat	amod
70	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blinked	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 blinked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the dragon	the dungeon			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dungeon=Result
2	follow	gerund	the dragon not said here	Johnnie and Tina	the bright gold		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent johnnie=Theme into gold=Trajectory
3	blink	past	Dragon	Dragon's eyes			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	do	present	a cat		the sunshine		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shake	past	Dragon	Dragon			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	drop off	past	the last	Dragon's wings with people			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	size	participle					tree rules
8	is	past	Dragon			like a sized cat	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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