The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 56
He was the dearest little elephant you ever saw--about six inches long.
Who acts: Tom, you · What happens: be, see · To what, where: dearest little elephant
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 (Tom, you), 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 | 6 elephant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 elephant | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elephant | det |
| 4 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 elephant | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elephant | amod |
| 6 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 saw | advmod |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 elephant | acl:relcl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 six | advmod |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 inches | nummod |
| 13 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 long | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elephant | amod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 elephant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tom | the dearest little elephant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | you | the dearest little elephant not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus |
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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