The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 29

He could only see "cora," but he felt the middle of the page swelling up thick with the creature that was trying to come out, and it was only by putting the book down and sitting on it suddenly, very hard, that he managed to get it shut.

Who acts: Dragon, page, creature · What happens: see, feel, swell up, try, come out, be · To what, where: cora, middle, page

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon, page, creature), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cora	punct
6	cora	cora	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cora	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cora	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 page	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 page	det
16	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	nmod
17	swelling	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 page	acl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 swelling	compound:prt
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swelling	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 creature	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 creature	det
22	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thick	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 trying	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 trying	aux
25	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 creature	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 come	mark
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 trying	xcomp
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 putting	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 putting	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 putting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 putting	cop
33	only	only	ADV	_	35 putting	advmod
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 putting	mark
35	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 felt	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 book	det
37	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 putting	obj
38	down	down	ADP	_	35 putting	compound:prt
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sitting	cc
40	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 putting	conj
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sitting	obl
43	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	40 sitting	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 hard	punct
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 hard	advmod
46	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 sitting	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 managed	punct
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 managed	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 managed	nsubj
50	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 get	mark
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 managed	xcomp
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 get	obj
54	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 get	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	Dragon	cora			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cora=Stimulus
2	feel	past	Dragon	the middle of the page			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middle=Theme
3	swell up	gerund	the page not said here			thick property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	try	past · progressive	the creature				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	come out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the creature not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	page			put property	tree rules
7	sit	gerund	page not said here		page	hard, suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
8	manage	past	Dragon				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	get	to-infinitive	Dragon not said here	page		shut property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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