The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 83
He was getting very hot: indeed, parts of him even had begun to smoke.
Who acts: Horse · What happens: get, begin, smoke · To what, where: parts
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 (Horse), 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 | 3 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | aux |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 getting | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 indeed | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 getting | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 parts | punct |
| 9 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 begun | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 parts | nmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 begun | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 begun | aux |
| 14 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 getting | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 smoke | mark |
| 16 | smoke | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begun | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | Horse | hot, indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past · perfect | parts of Horse | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | smoke | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «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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