The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 117
And, sure enough, there under the tree was the dragon on a nest of scorched moss, and he was about as long as your finger.
Who acts: tree, kingdom · What happens: be, scorch · To what, where: nest
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, kingdom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sure | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 sure | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 under | expl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragon | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dragon | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 nest | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nest | det |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragon | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 moss | case |
| 17 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 moss | amod |
| 18 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nest | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 long | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 long | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 long | cop |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 finger | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 finger | nmod:poss |
| 28 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 long | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tree | a nest of scorched moss | under the dragon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scorch | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | kingdom | as your finger; about, long property | 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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