The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 71
For he was a false Prince, with a skin like leather and hair like hearth brushes and a heart like a stone.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 skin | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 skin | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 5 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Prince | amod |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skin | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 leather | case |
| 12 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hair | cc |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leather | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 brushes | case |
| 16 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brushes | compound |
| 17 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hair | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heart | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leather | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 stone | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stone | det |
| 23 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 skin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | for a skin; like leather and hair like hearth brushes and a heart like a stone | 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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