The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 63

The dragon seemed to be made almost entirely of iron armor--a sort of tawny, red-rust color it was; from damp, no doubt--and under it he seemed to be covered with something furry.

Who acts: dragon · What happens: seem, make, cover, sort · To what, where: several, tawny rust color

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 made	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seemed	xcomp
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 entirely	advmod
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 armor	case
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 armor	compound
11	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entirely	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 sort	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sort	det
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 armor	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	21 color	case
16	tawny	tawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 color	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rust	punct
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rust	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 red	punct
20	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 color	compound
21	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 was	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 color	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 damp	punct
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 damp	case
26	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 doubt	punct
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 doubt	det
29	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 damp	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seemed	cc
32	under	under	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seemed	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seemed	nsubj
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	38 covered	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 covered	aux:pass
38	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 seemed	xcomp
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 something	case
40	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 covered	obl
41	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 something	amod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the dragon				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	make	to-infinitive · passive	the dragon not said here			entirely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
3	seem	past	Dragon		several		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	cover	to-infinitive · passive	Dragon not said here			with something	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with something=Theme
5	sort			tawny rust color			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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