The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 295
Nothing of the dragon remained except the claws, which all cats have still, as you can easily ascertain.
Who acts: Nothing, cats, you · What happens: remain, have, ascertain · To what, where: claws
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 (Nothing, cats, you), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 claws | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 claws | det |
| 8 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remained | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 have | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 cats | det |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 claws | parataxis |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ascertain | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 ascertain | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 ascertain | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ascertain | aux |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 20 ascertain | advmod |
| 20 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Nothing | the claws | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme claw=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | present | all cats | the claws | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 3 | ascertain | can | you | easily property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: 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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