The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 134
This annoyed the dragon so much that he put out all his strength--spread his great purple wings, and tried to fly at her.
Who acts: This, Yah, annoyed dragon · What happens: dragon, put out, spread, try, fly · To what, where: strength, great purple wings
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 (This, Yah, annoyed 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dragon | nsubj |
| 2 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dragon | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spread | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 dragon | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dragon | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 strength | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 strength | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragon | punct |
| 15 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wings | amod |
| 18 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wings | amod |
| 19 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spread | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tried | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tried | cc |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spread | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fly | mark |
| 24 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tried | xcomp |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fly | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dragon | This | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | put out | past | Yah | Yah's strength | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent strength=Goal | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | the annoyed dragon | Yah's great purple wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | past | the annoyed dragon not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | the annoyed dragon not said here | at Princess | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=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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