The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 235
Here another pig put its black nose in at the door, and then another and another, till the room was full of pigs, a surging mass of rounded blackness, pushing and struggling to get at Elfin, and grunting softly in the language of true affection.
Who acts: pig, room · What happens: put, be, surge, round, push, struggle · To what, where: black nose, door, Elfin, language
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 (pig, room), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 pig | det |
| 3 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nose | nmod:poss |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nose | amod |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 another | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 another | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 another | advmod |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 put | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 another | cc |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 another | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 full | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 put | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pigs | case |
| 25 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mass | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mass | det |
| 28 | surging | surge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 mass | amod |
| 29 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pigs | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 blackness | case |
| 31 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 blackness | amod |
| 32 | blackness | blackness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mass | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pushing | punct |
| 34 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 put | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 struggling | cc |
| 36 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 pushing | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 get | mark |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 struggling | xcomp |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 Elfin | case |
| 40 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 get | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 grunting | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 grunting | cc |
| 43 | grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 pushing | advcl |
| 44 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 43 grunting | advmod |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 language | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 language | det |
| 47 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grunting | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 affection | case |
| 49 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 affection | amod |
| 50 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 language | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | another pig | best's black nose | the door; here | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme at door=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the room | of pigs; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | surge | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | round | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | push | gerund | another pig not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | struggle | gerund | another pig not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | another pig not said here | Elfin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | grunt | gerund | another pig not said here | the language of true affection | softly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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