The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 109
The yellow dragon crept nearer and nearer, licking her greedy lips with her long red tongue, and Edmund knew that in the school his master was still teaching earnestly and still not believing Edmund's tale the least little bit.
Who acts: yellow dragon, Edmund, master · What happens: creep, lick, know, teach, not believe, tell · To what, where: greedy lips, school, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yellow dragon, Edmund, master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dragon | amod |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 crept | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nearer | cc |
| 7 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 nearer | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 licking | punct |
| 9 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 crept | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lips | nmod:poss |
| 11 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lips | amod |
| 12 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 licking | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 tongue | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tongue | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tongue | amod |
| 17 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 licking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knew | cc |
| 20 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 teaching | mark |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 school | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 school | det |
| 25 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 teaching | obl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 master | nmod:poss |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 teaching | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 teaching | aux |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 teaching | advmod |
| 30 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 31 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 30 teaching | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 believing | cc |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 believing | advmod |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 believing | advmod |
| 35 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 teaching | conj |
| 36 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 tale | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Edmund | case |
| 38 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 believing | obj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bit | det |
| 40 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 bit | amod |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bit | amod |
| 42 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 believing | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the yellow dragon | near property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lick | gerund | the yellow dragon not said here | granny's greedy lips | with granny's long red tongue | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lip=Experiencer with tongue=Instrument | |||
| 3 | know | past | Edmund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | past · progressive | shower's master | the school | still | earnestly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 5 | not believe | gerund | shower's master not said here | Edmund's tale | still | the least little bit obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||
| 6 | tell | Edmund | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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