The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 92
"Whatever's that?" said the dragon, starting so that every plate on his body rattled.
Who acts: that, dragon, body · What happens: be, say, start, rattle · To what, where: Whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, dragon, body), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 2 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Whatever | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Whatever | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 starting | punct |
| 11 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 plate | case |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 plate | det |
| 15 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 starting | obl |
| 16 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 rattled | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rattled | nsubj |
| 19 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 starting | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | Whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start | gerund | the dragon not said here | so every plate | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | rattle | past | Dragon's body | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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