The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 162
He was playing his flute, and around him the pigs were dancing cheerfully on their hind legs.
Who acts: Heart · What happens: play, dance · To what, where: flute, hind legs
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 (Heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 playing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 playing | aux |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flute | nmod:poss |
| 5 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 playing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dancing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dancing | cc |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dancing | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pigs | det |
| 11 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 him | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dancing | aux |
| 13 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 playing | parataxis |
| 14 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 13 dancing | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 legs | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 legs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 legs | amod |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dancing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | Heart | Heart's flute | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | past · progressive | Heart | pigs's hind legs | cheerfully property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location |
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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