The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 137
All but the magician, who was choking between the Belgian hares, and felt nothing but fur and fury.
Who acts: magician · What happens: choke, feel · To what, where: nothing
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 (magician), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 magician | det |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 magician | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 choking | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 choking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 choking | aux |
| 8 | choking | choke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 magician | acl:relcl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 hares | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hares | det |
| 11 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hares | amod |
| 12 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 choking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 felt | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fur | cc |
| 18 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fury | cc |
| 20 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choke | past · progressive | all magician | between the Belgian hares | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | all magician | nothing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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