The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 42
It was quite full, and what it was full of was Dragon.
Who acts: side · What happens: be
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 (side), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 full | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 full | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 full | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 full | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 full | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Dragon | case |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Dragon | cop |
| 13 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | side | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | full property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | of Dragon | 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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