The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 214
Her tail was a mile or two off--outside the mountain.
Who acts: tail · What happens: be · To what, where: mile
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 (tail), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tail | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mile | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mile | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mile | det |
| 5 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 two | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mile | appos |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 two | compound:prt |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 mountain | punct |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mile | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cockatrice's tail | a mile and the mountain | tree rules |
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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