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The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 94

The dragon opened a great purple mouth and licked his purple lips, so Tom ran and shook the bun tree, and soon came back with an armful of fresh currant buns, and as he came he picked a few of the Bath kind, which grow on the low bushes near the pillar.

Who acts: dragon, Tom, Bath kind · What happens: open, lick, run, shake, come back, come · To what, where: great purple mouth, purple lips, bun tree, few, low bushes

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, Tom, Bath kind), 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

detnsubjdetamodamodobjccconjnmod:possamodobjpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisccconjdetcompoundobjpunctccadvmodparataxisadvmodcasedetoblcaseamodcompoundnmodpunctccmarknsubjadvclnsubjconjdetobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctrootTheDETdragonNOUNopenedVERBaDETgreatADJpurpleADJmouthNOUNandCCONJlickedVERBhisPRONpurpleADJlipsNOUN,PUNCTsoADVTomPROPNranVERBandCCONJshookVERBtheDETbunNOUNtreeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsoonADVcameVERBbackADVwithADPanDETarmfulNOUNofADPfreshADJcurrantNOUNbunsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJhePRONcameVERBhePRONpickedVERBaDETfewADJofADPtheDETBathPROPNkindNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONgrowVERBonADPtheDETlowADJbushesNOUNnearADPtheDETpillarNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 dragondet
2dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing3 openednsubj
3openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 mouthdet
5greatgreatADJDegree=Pos7 mouthamod
6purplepurpleADJDegree=Pos7 mouthamod
7mouthmouthNOUNNumber=Sing3 openedobj
8andandCCONJ_9 lickedcc
9lickedlickVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 openedconj
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 lipsnmod:poss
11purplepurpleADJDegree=Pos12 lipsamod
12lipslipNOUNNumber=Plur9 lickedobj
13,,PUNCT_16 ranpunct
14sosoADV_16 ranadvmod
15TomTomPROPNNumber=Sing16 rannsubj
16ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 openedparataxis
17andandCCONJ_18 shookcc
18shookshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 ranconj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 treedet
20bunbunNOUNNumber=Sing21 treecompound
21treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing18 shookobj
22,,PUNCT_25 camepunct
23andandCCONJ_25 camecc
24soonsoonADVDegree=Pos25 cameadvmod
25camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 openedparataxis
26backbackADV_25 cameadvmod
27withwithADP_29 armfulcase
28anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 armfuldet
29armfularmfulNOUNNumber=Sing25 cameobl
30ofofADP_33 bunscase
31freshfreshADJDegree=Pos33 bunsamod
32currantcurrantNOUNNumber=Sing33 bunscompound
33bunsbunNOUNNumber=Plur29 armfulnmod
34,,PUNCT_40 pickedpunct
35andandCCONJ_40 pickedcc
36asasSCONJ_38 camemark
37hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 camensubj
38camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 pickedadvcl
39hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 pickednsubj
40pickedpickVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 cameconj
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 fewdet
42fewfewADJDegree=Pos40 pickedobj
43ofofADP_46 kindcase
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 kinddet
45BathBathPROPNNumber=Sing46 kindcompound
46kindkindNOUNNumber=Sing42 fewobl
47,,PUNCT_49 growpunct
48whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel49 grownsubj
49growgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin46 kindacl:relcl
50ononADP_53 bushescase
51thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art53 bushesdet
52lowlowADJDegree=Pos53 bushesamod
53bushesbushNOUNNumber=Plur49 growobl
54nearnearADP_56 pillarcase
55thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art56 pillardet
56pillarpillarNOUNNumber=Sing53 bushesnmod
57..PUNCT_3 openedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1openpastthe dragona great purple mouthvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2lickpastthe dragon not said heredragon's purple lipsvn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source
3runpastTomvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4shakepastTom not said herethe bun treevn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
5come backpastwith a armful of fresh currant buns; soon propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6comepastTomvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7pickpastToma fewvn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient
8growpresentthe Bath kindthe low bushes near the pillarvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=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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