The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 64
Of the whole of the pack that had come out sporting so merrily to the music of the horn, now not even a puppy-hippopotamus was left, and the dragon was looking anxiously around to see if he had forgotten anything.
Who acts: pack, dragon, quarry · What happens: come out, sport, not leave, look, see, forget · To what, where: puppy hippopotamus, anything
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 (pack, dragon, quarry), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 whole | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whole | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pack | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pack | det |
| 6 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whole | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 pack | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | sporting | sport | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 whole | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 merrily | advmod |
| 13 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 11 sporting | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 music | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 music | det |
| 16 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 merrily | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 horn | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horn | det |
| 19 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 music | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 left | advmod |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 left | advmod |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 left | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hippopotamus | det |
| 25 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hippopotamus | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 puppy | punct |
| 27 | hippopotamus | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | aux:pass |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sporting | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 looking | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 looking | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 dragon | det |
| 33 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 looking | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 looking | aux |
| 35 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 whole | parataxis |
| 36 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 37 around | advmod |
| 37 | around | around | ADV | _ | 35 looking | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 see | mark |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 looking | advcl |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 forgotten | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 forgotten | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 forgotten | aux |
| 43 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 see | ccomp |
| 44 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 forgotten | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past · perfect | the pack | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sport | gerund | merrily property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not leave | past · passive | a puppy hippopotamus | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | the dragon | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | the dragon not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | forget a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | quarry | anything | tree rules |
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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