The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 228
It went up to Elfin and rubbed itself against him with little loving grunts.
Who acts: oldest · What happens: go up, rub · To what, where: Elfin, oldest
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 (oldest), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Elfin | case |
| 5 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rubbed | cc |
| 7 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 rubbed | obj |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rubbed | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 grunts | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grunts | amod |
| 13 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grunts | amod |
| 14 | grunts | grunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rubbed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | oldest = old | Elfin | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | oldest = old not said here | oldest = old | against Elfin; with little loving grunts | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme against he=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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