The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 126
It was warranted harmless to infants and invalids, so he felt quite safe.
Who acts: Harry · What happens: warrant, feel · To what, where: mess
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 warranted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 warranted | aux:pass |
| 3 | warranted | warrant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warranted | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 infants | case |
| 6 | infants | infant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 harmless | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 invalids | cc |
| 8 | invalids | invalid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 infants | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 felt | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 warranted | conj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 safe | advmod |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warranted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warrant | past · passive | mess | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Harry | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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