The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 231
Sabrinetta stroked the pig, because Elfin had no hands for stroking or for anything else.
Who acts: Sabrinetta, Elfin · What happens: stroke, have · To what, where: pig, hands
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 (Sabrinetta, Elfin), 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 | Sabrinetta | Sabrinetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stroked | nsubj |
| 2 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pig | det |
| 4 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stroked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stroked | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 hands | det |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 stroking | mark |
| 12 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 had | advcl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 anything | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 anything | case |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 stroking | conj |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 anything | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | Sabrinetta | the pig | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Elfin | no hands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stroke | gerund | Elfin not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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