The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 91
And he clasped the book very tightly with the turquoise and ruby clasps.
Who acts: Horse · What happens: clasp · To what, where: book
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 clasped | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clasped | nsubj |
| 3 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clasped | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 tightly | advmod |
| 7 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 3 clasped | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 turquoise | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 turquoise | det |
| 10 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clasped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clasps | cc |
| 12 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clasps | compound |
| 13 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turquoise | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | Horse | the book | with the turquoise and ruby clasps; tightly property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent book=Patient with turquoise=Instrument |
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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