The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 206
Then he poked and prodded the dragon with bits of stick till it crawled into the dragonproof bottle.
Who acts: Elfin, bottle · What happens: poke, prod, crawl · To what, where: dragon, dragonproof bottle
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 (Elfin, bottle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 poked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 poked | nsubj |
| 3 | poked | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 prodded | cc |
| 5 | prodded | prod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poked | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prodded | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bits | case |
| 9 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prodded | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stick | case |
| 11 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bits | nmod |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 crawled | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crawled | nsubj |
| 14 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prodded | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 bottle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bottle | det |
| 17 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bottle | amod |
| 18 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crawled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poke | past | Elfin | then | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prod | past | Elfin not said here | the dragon | with bits of stick | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dragon=Experiencer with bit=Instrument | |||
| 3 | crawl | past | bottle | the dragonproof bottle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bottle=Destination |
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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