The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 81

His wings were like old purple umbrellas that have been very much rained on, and his head was large and bald, like the top of a purple toadstool, and his tail, which was purple too, was very, very, very long and thin and tight, like the lash of a carriage whip.

Who acts: wings, head, tail, old purple umbrellas · What happens: be, rain on · To what, where: old purple umbrellas

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 (wings, head, tail, old purple umbrellas), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 umbrellas	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 umbrellas	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 umbrellas	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 umbrellas	amod
6	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 umbrellas	amod
7	umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 long	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 rained	obj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rained	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 rained	aux:pass
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 rained	advmod
13	rained	rain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 umbrellas	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 rained	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 large	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 large	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 large	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 large	cop
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 umbrellas	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bald	cc
22	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 large	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 top	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 top	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 top	det
26	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 large	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 toadstool	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 toadstool	det
29	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 toadstool	amod
30	toadstool	toadstool	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 top	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 purple	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 purple	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tail	nmod:poss
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 purple	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 purple	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 purple	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 purple	cop
38	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 large	conj
39	too	too	ADV	_	38 purple	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 umbrellas	punct
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 long	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	47 long	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 very	punct
44	very	very	ADV	_	47 long	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 long	punct
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 long	advmod
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 thin	cc
49	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 long	conj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 tight	cc
51	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 long	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 lash	punct
53	like	like	ADP	_	55 lash	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 lash	det
55	lash	lash	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 long	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 whip	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 whip	det
58	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 whip	compound
59	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lash	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom's wings		like old purple umbrellas	tree rules
2	rain on	present · perfect · passive		old purple umbrellas		tree rules
3	is	past	Tom's head		like the top of a purple toadstool; large property	tree rules
4	be		Tom's head not said here			tree rules
5	is	past	Tom's tail		purple property	tree rules
6	is	past	old purple umbrellas		long property	tree rules
7	be		old purple umbrellas not said here			tree rules
8	be		old purple umbrellas not said here			tree rules

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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