The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 180
But the drakling came close and looked down with one eye and sniffed, and said: "That smells good, eh?"
Who acts: drakling, That · What happens: come, look down, sniff, say, smell · 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 (drakling, That), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 drakling | det |
| 3 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 5 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 looked | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eye | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eye | nummod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sniffed | cc |
| 13 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 smells | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 smells | punct |
| 19 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 smells | nsubj |
| 20 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 smells | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eh | punct |
| 23 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 20 smells | discourse |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 smells | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 smells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the drakling | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look down | past | the drakling not said here | with one eye | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sniff | past | the drakling not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | smell in a quote | present | That | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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