The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 69
He drained the silver hunting bottle slung from his shoulder, and stretched his legs in the hollow tree.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: drain, hunt, sling, stretch · To what, where: silver, bottle, shoulder, legs
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), 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 drained | nsubj |
| 2 | drained | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 silver | det |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drained | obj |
| 5 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 drained | advcl |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunting | obj |
| 7 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bottle | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 shoulder | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stretched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stretched | cc |
| 13 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drained | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 legs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stretched | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stretched | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drain | past | Prince | the silver | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent silver=Source | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | Prince not said here | bottle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sling | participle | bottle not said here | Prince's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from shoulder=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stretch | past | Prince not said here | Prince's legs | in the hollow tree | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Patient in tree=Topic |
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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