The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 69

The Hippogriff rubbed its silky-soft, milky white nose against the little King's shoulder, and the little King thought: "But for the wings you are very like my poor, dear lost Rocking Horse."

Who acts: Hippogriff, little King, you, wings · What happens: rub, think, be, lose, rock · To what, where: silky soft milky white nose, shoulder, wings, Horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hippogriff, little King, you, wings), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hippogriff	det
2	Hippogriff	Hippogriff	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	nsubj
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
5	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nose	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 silky	punct
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nose	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soft	punct
9	milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nose	amod
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nose	amod
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	obj
12	against	against	ADP	_	17 shoulder	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 King	amod
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 shoulder	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 King	case
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 King	amod
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbed	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 lost	punct
26	But	but	CCONJ	_	38 lost	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 wings	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wings	det
29	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lost	nsubj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 poor	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 poor	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	35 poor	advmod
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 poor	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 poor	nmod:poss
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wings	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dear	punct
37	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 poor	conj
38	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	ccomp
39	Rocking	rock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 lost	xcomp
40	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Rocking	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 lost	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rub	past	the Hippogriff	Hippogriff's silky soft milky white nose	the little King's shoulder		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against shoulder=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	the little King				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	you	the wings not said here		poor property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		you not said here				tree rules
5	lose in a quote	past	the wings				tree rules
6	rock in a quote	gerund	the wings not said here	Horse			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=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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