The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 125
Effie wrapped herself in a shawl of dragonproof muslin--there was no time to make the frock--and Harry made a horrid mess of himself with the patent dragon poison.
Who acts: Effie, time, Harry · What happens: wrap, be, make, mess · To what, where: Effie, shawl, frock, horrid mess, Harry
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Effie, time, Harry), 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 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 wrapped | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shawl | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shawl | det |
| 6 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 muslin | case |
| 8 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 muslin | amod |
| 9 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shawl | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrapped | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 frock | det |
| 18 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 21 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrapped | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mess | det |
| 24 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mess | amod |
| 25 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 mess | nmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 poison | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 poison | det |
| 30 | patent | patent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dragon | compound |
| 31 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 poison | compound |
| 32 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past | Effie | Effie | a shawl of dragonproof muslin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in shawl=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | past | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | no time not said here | the frock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset frock=Product | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Harry | a horrid mess of Harry | with the dragon poison | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Product | |||
| 5 | mess | Harry | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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