The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 58
For there, plain to be seen, was the dragon, as big as a barge, glowing like a furnace, and spitting fire and showing his shining teeth.
What happens: see, be, glow, spit, show, shine · To what, where: dragon, fire, shining teeth
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 there | case |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 plain | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 plain | punct |
| 4 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 plain | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dragon | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dragon | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plain | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 big | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 big | advmod |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plain | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 barge | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 barge | det |
| 17 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 big | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glowing | punct |
| 19 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 big | advcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 furnace | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 furnace | det |
| 22 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glowing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spitting | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spitting | cc |
| 25 | spitting | spit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 glowing | conj |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spitting | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 showing | cc |
| 28 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 spitting | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 teeth | amod |
| 31 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 showing | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | like a furnace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spit | gerund | fire | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | gerund | Prince's shining teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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