The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 196
And the dragon, lying asleep in the sun, woke up and said very crossly: "What are you laughing at?"
Who acts: dragon, you · What happens: lie, wake up, say, laugh · To what, where: sun · 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 (dragon, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dragon | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dragon | acl |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lying | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
| 11 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 woke | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 woke | conj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 crossly | advmod |
| 16 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 laughing | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 laughing | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 laughing | obj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 laughing | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 laughing | nsubj |
| 22 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 laughing | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 laughing | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 laughing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | the dragon not said here | the sun | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | |||
| 2 | wake up | past | the dragon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the dragon not said here | crossly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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