The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 82

It was licking one of its purple umbrella-y wings, and every now and then it moaned and leaned its head back against the rocky pillar as though it felt faint.

Who acts: tail · What happens: lick, moan, learn back, feel · To what, where: one, head

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 (tail), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 licking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 licking	aux
3	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 licking	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 wings	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wings	nmod:poss
7	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wings	amod
8	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 y	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 umbrella	punct
10	y	y	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wings	compound
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 moaned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 moaned	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 moaned	det
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 moaned	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 moaned	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 moaned	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moaned	nsubj
19	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 licking	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 leaned	cc
21	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moaned	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaned	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	21 leaned	advmod
25	against	against	ADP	_	28 pillar	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pillar	det
27	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pillar	amod
28	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaned	obl
29	as	as	ADV	_	32 felt	advmod
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 felt	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	nsubj
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moaned	advcl
33	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 felt	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 licking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lick	past · progressive	tail	one of tail's purple y wings			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source
2	moan	past	tail		now; then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn back	past	tail not said here	tail's head		against the rocky pillar	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
4	feel	past	tail			faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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