The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 161

The cave was rather narrow for the drakling, but it made itself thin, as you may see a fat worm do when it wants to get through a narrow crack in a piece of hard earth.

Who acts: cave, bed, you · What happens: be, make, see, want, get · To what, where: bed, fat worm, narrow crack

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 (cave, bed, you), 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	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 narrow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 narrow	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 narrow	advmod
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 drakling	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drakling	det
8	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 narrow	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 narrow	parataxis
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 made	obj
14	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 see	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 worm	det
21	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 worm	amod
22	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wants	aux
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 wants	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wants	nsubj
26	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 see	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wants	xcomp
29	through	through	ADP	_	32 crack	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crack	det
31	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 crack	amod
32	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 piece	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 piece	det
35	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 earth	case
37	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 earth	amod
38	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 piece	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 narrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cave			for the drakling; narrow property	tree rules
2	make	past	bed	bed		thin property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material itself=Product
3	see	may	you	a fat worm			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=Stimulus
4	want	present · do-support	bed				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	bed not said here		a narrow crack	in a piece of hard earth	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through crack=Destination

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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