The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 49
This person had a man's face and a griffin's body, and big feathery wings, and a snake's tail, and a cock's comb and neck feathers.
Who acts: person · What happens: have · To what, where: face
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 (person), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 man | case |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 body | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 griffin | det |
| 10 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 griffin | case |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 face | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wings | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wings | cc |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wings | amod |
| 16 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wings | amod |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tail | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tail | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 snake | det |
| 21 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tail | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 snake | case |
| 23 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 feathers | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 feathers | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cock | det |
| 27 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 comb | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 cock | case |
| 29 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 feathers | compound |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 neck | cc |
| 31 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 comb | conj |
| 32 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this person | a man's face and a griffin's body | big feathery wings obl; comb feathers obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
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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