The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 40

The guinea pig, as you know, was as big as our elephants, and the elephant--dear little pet--was the size of the silly, tiny, black-and-tan dogs that ladies carry sometimes in their muffs.

Who acts: you, guinea pig, elephant, ladies · What happens: know, be, carry · To what, where: guinea pig, size, tan dogs, muffs

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, guinea pig, elephant, ladies), 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	3 pig	det
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pig	compound
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 big	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 know	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pig	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pig	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 big	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 elephants	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 elephants	nmod:poss
14	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 big	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 size	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 size	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 elephant	det
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 size	nsubj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 pet	punct
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pet	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pet	amod
22	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 elephant	conj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 elephant	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 size	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 size	det
26	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 big	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 silly	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 silly	det
29	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 size	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tiny	punct
31	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 silly	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 black	punct
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 silly	conj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 black	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dogs	cc
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 and	punct
37	tan	tan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dogs	amod
38	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 size	conj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 carry	obj
40	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 carry	nsubj
41	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 dogs	acl:relcl
42	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 carry	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 muffs	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 muffs	nmod:poss
45	muffs	muff	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 carry	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	the guinea pig not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pig=Stimulus
2	is	past	the guinea pig			as our elephants; big property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the elephant and dear little pet	the size and tan dogs		of the silly	tree rules
4	carry	present	ladies	tan dogs	sizes's muffs	sometimes property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Value in muff=Location

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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