The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 98
The dragon ate up the buns, nodded rather ungraciously, and began to lick his wing again.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: eat up, nod, begin, lick · To what, where: buns, wing
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 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ate | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 buns | det |
| 6 | buns | bun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ate | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nodded | punct |
| 8 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 ungraciously | advmod |
| 10 | ungraciously | ungraciously | ADV | _ | 8 nodded | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lick | mark |
| 15 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lick | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 lick | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | past | the dragon | the buns | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Patient | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | the dragon not said here | ungraciously property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the dragon not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lick | to-infinitive | the dragon not said here | dragon's wing | again | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wing=Source |
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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