The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 294
And from that day he grew furrier and furrier, and he was the beginning of all cats.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: beginning
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 | _ | 6 grew | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | furrier | furry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 furrier | cc |
| 9 | furrier | furry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 furrier | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beginning | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beginning | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 beginning | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 beginning | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beginning | det |
| 15 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cats | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 cats | det |
| 18 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 beginning | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Dragon | day | furry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Dragon | the beginning | of all cats | 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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