The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
In a few minutes the Manticora came sleepily out of the book, rubbing its eyes with its hands and mewing piteously.
Who acts: Manticora · What happens: come, rub, mew · To what, where: book, eyes
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 (Manticora), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Manticora | det |
| 6 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sleepily | sleepily | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rubbing | punct |
| 14 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rubbing | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rubbing | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mewing | cc |
| 21 | mewing | mew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rubbing | conj |
| 22 | piteously | piteously | ADV | _ | 21 mewing | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Manticora | the book | minute | sleepily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out book=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | rub | gerund | the Manticora not said here | picture's eyes | with picture's hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | mew | gerund | the Manticora not said here | piteously property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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