The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 53
The dragon was shy, and would not show himself.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, not show · To what, where: scent
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 (dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shy | cop |
| 4 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 show | cc |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 show | advmod |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shy | parataxis |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 show | iobj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not show | would | scent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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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