The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 111
Then the dragon opened her jaws wider and wider and wider.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: open · To what, where: jaws
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 (dragon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 opened | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wider | cc |
| 9 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 wider | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wider | cc |
| 11 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 wider | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the dragon | granny's jaws | then | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme |
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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