The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 57
One of my wings has got some of the rivets out of it just above the joint.
Who acts: One · What happens: get · To what, where: some, joint
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 got | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wings | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rivets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rivets | det |
| 10 | rivets | rivet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rivets | nmod |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 joint | advmod |
| 15 | above | above | ADP | _ | 17 joint | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 joint | det |
| 17 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 some | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | One of my wings | some | the joint | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
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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