The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 113
When he opened his eyes again there was no town--only a bare place where it had stood, and the dragon licking her lips and curling herself up to go to sleep, just as Kitty does when she has quite finished with a mouse.
Who acts: shower, town, dragon, Kitty · What happens: open, be, stand, lick, curl up, go · To what, where: eyes, town, lips, granny, sleep
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 (shower, town, dragon, Kitty), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 was | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 place | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 town | appos |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 stood | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stood | aux |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 licking | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 licking | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dragon | det |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 licking | nsubj |
| 24 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 stood | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lips | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 licking | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 curling | cc |
| 28 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 licking | conj |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 curling | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 curling | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 curling | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 sleep | case |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 does | punct |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 39 does | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 does | mark |
| 38 | Kitty | Kitty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 does | nsubj |
| 39 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 licking | conj |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 finished | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 finished | nsubj |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 finished | aux |
| 43 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 44 finished | advmod |
| 44 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 does | advcl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 mouse | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 mouse | det |
| 47 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 finished | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | shower | shower's eyes | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | no town | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · perfect · passive | town | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | lick | gerund | the dragon | granny's lips | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 5 | curl up | gerund | the dragon not said here | granny | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | the dragon not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | do | present | Kitty | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | finish | present · perfect | Kitty | with a mouse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with mouse=Subeventuality |
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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