The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 66
He hoped the dragon could not break through the bushes there, since they were very strong and close.
Who acts: Prince, dragon, bushes · What happens: hope, not break, be · To what, where: bushes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, dragon, bushes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hoped | nsubj |
| 2 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 break | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 break | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 break | advmod |
| 7 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hoped | ccomp |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 bushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bushes | det |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 break | obl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 break | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strong | punct |
| 13 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 strong | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strong | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 strong | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 strong | advmod |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 break | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 close | cc |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 strong | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | Prince | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not break | could | the dragon | the bushes; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bush=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bushes = bush | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | bushes = bush not said here | 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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