The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 91
The dragon opened his purple eyes with an inquiring smile.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: open, inquire · To what, where: purple eyes
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 (dragon), 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 | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyes | amod |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 smile | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 smile | det |
| 9 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 smile | amod |
| 10 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the dragon | dragon's purple eyes | with a inquiring smile | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with smile=Instrument | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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