The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 164
The drakling sat down and waited, but it watched the fire with hungry eyes.
Who acts: drakling, bed · What happens: sit down, wait, watch · To what, where: fire
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 (drakling, bed), 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 drakling | det |
| 2 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waited | cc |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 watched | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 watched | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | nsubj |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watched | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 watched | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the drakling | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | the drakling not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | past | bed | the fire | with hungry eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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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