The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 102
Presently the cab drew up near the pillar, and there was the dragon, his ugly purple head shining in the sun, and his ugly purple mouth half open.
Who acts: cab, ugly purple head · What happens: draw up, be, shine · To what, where: pillar, dragon, sun
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cab, ugly purple head), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cab | det |
| 3 | cab | cab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 drew | compound:prt |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 pillar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pillar | det |
| 8 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dragon | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dragon | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 head | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 18 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragon | appos |
| 20 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 head | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sun | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shining | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 open | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 open | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mouth | amod |
| 28 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mouth | amod |
| 29 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 half | compound |
| 30 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 31 open | compound |
| 31 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drew | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | the cab | the pillar | presently property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | cab's ugly purple head not said here | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=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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