The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 87
He looked and he hesitated, and he looked again, and then, with one last squirm of rage, the Dragon wriggled himself back into the picture and sat down under the palm tree, and the page was a little singed as he went in.
Who acts: Horse, one last squirm, rage · What happens: look, hesitate, wriggle back, sit down, singe, go in · To what, where: Horse, picture, palm tree, 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 (Horse, one last squirm, rage), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hesitated | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hesitated | nsubj |
| 5 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 squirm | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 squirm | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 squirm | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 squirm | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 squirm | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 squirm | nummod |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 squirm | amod |
| 18 | squirm | squirm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wriggled | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rage | case |
| 20 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 squirm | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wriggled | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dragon | det |
| 23 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wriggled | nsubj |
| 24 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 wriggled | obj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 wriggled | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 picture | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 picture | det |
| 29 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wriggled | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sat | cc |
| 31 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wriggled | conj |
| 32 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 sat | compound:prt |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 36 tree | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tree | det |
| 35 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tree | compound |
| 36 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sat | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 singed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 singed | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 page | det |
| 40 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 singed | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 singed | aux:pass |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 little | det |
| 43 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 singed | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | singed | singe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 went | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 went | nsubj |
| 47 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 singed | advcl |
| 48 | in | in | ADV | _ | 47 went | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Horse | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hesitate | past | Horse | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Horse | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wriggle back | past | one last squirm of rage | Horse | the picture | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sit down | past | one last squirm of rage not said here | the palm tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 6 | singe | past · passive | the page | a little obl:unmarked | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | go in | past | Horse | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | squirm | rage | nom squirm «act intransitive»: of=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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