The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 26
With its tiny trunk the elephant pointed out a date--the fifteenth of August, the Princess's birthday, and looked anxiously at its master.
What happens: point out, look
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: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 trunk | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trunk | amod |
| 4 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 date | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elephant | det |
| 6 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 date | nsubj |
| 7 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 date | amod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 pointed | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 date | det |
| 10 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 fifteenth | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fifteenth | det |
| 13 | fifteenth | fifteenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 date | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 August | case |
| 15 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fifteenth | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 birthday | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Princess | case |
| 20 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 August | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 date | conj |
| 24 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 23 looked | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 master | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 master | nmod:poss |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 date | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | past | at creature's master; anxiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at master=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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