The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 21

It hurt very much indeed, and it felt something like a red-hot spark--only it seemed to have legs as well, and wings like a fly.

Who acts: Country, it · What happens: hurt, feel, seem, have · To what, where: wings, something, legs

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 (Country, it), 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	2 hurt	nsubj
2	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 indeed	advmod
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 hurt	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 felt	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 felt	nsubj
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurt	parataxis
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 felt	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	16 spark	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spark	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spark	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spark	amod
16	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 seemed	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurt	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	22 have	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wings	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wings	cc
28	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hurt	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 fly	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fly	det
31	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wings	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hurt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	Country	wings like a fly	indeed property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	feel	past	Country	something	like a red hot spark	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive		legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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