The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 86
My pigs and I were looking on."
Who acts: pigs · What happens: look on
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 (pigs), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pigs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 I | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pigs | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 looking | compound:prt |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past · progressive | My pigs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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