The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 37
Then the dragon got into the habit of cracking his tail, as people crack whips, and this also got on people's nerves.
Who acts: dragon, habit, people, this · What happens: get, crack · To what, where: habit, tail, whips, nerves
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 (dragon, habit, people, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 habit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 habit | det |
| 7 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 cracking | mark |
| 9 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 habit | acl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cracking | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crack | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 crack | mark |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crack | nsubj |
| 15 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 16 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crack | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 nerves | case |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 nerves | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 people | case |
| 25 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 got | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the dragon | the habit | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into habit=Destination | |||
| 2 | crack | gerund | the habit not said here | man's tail | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crack | present | people | whips | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | this | people's nerves | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on nerve=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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