The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 54
But just as the Prince was beginning to think there was no dragon at all, but only a cock and bull, his favourite old hippopotamus gave tongue.
Who acts: Prince, beginning, favourite old hippopotamus · What happens: begin, think, be, give · To what, where: dragon, all, tongue
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 (Prince, beginning, favourite old hippopotamus), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 beginning | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 beginning | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 beginning | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 beginning | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beginning | aux |
| 7 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dragon | csubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beginning | xcomp |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 think | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dragon | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 dragon | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cock | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 cock | cc |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 cock | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cock | det |
| 20 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dragon | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bull | cc |
| 22 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cock | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hippopotamus | nmod:poss |
| 25 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hippopotamus | amod |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hippopotamus | amod |
| 27 | hippopotamus | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cock | acl:relcl |
| 29 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | the Prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | there | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | beginning | no dragon but a cock and bull | all | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | past | Prince's favourite old hippopotamus | tongue | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
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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