The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 62
The dragon swallowed all the hippopotamuses just as a dog swallows bits of meat.
Who acts: dragon, dog · What happens: swallow · To what, where: hippopotamuses, bits
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, dog), 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 | 3 swallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 hippopotamuses | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hippopotamuses | det |
| 6 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swallowed | obj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 swallows | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 swallows | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swallows | nsubj |
| 11 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swallowed | advcl |
| 12 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swallows | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 meat | case |
| 14 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bits | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | the dragon | all hippopotamuses | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swallow | present | a dog | bits of meat | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/62/