The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 18
It was about as long as a hearthrug.
Who acts: thing · What happens: be
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 (thing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hearthrug | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hearthrug | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hearthrug | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 hearthrug | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hearthrug | det |
| 8 | hearthrug | hearthrug | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hearthrug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thing | as a hearthrug; 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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