The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 37

Four well-developed limbs; a long caudal appendage; five toes, unequal in lengths, almost like one of the _Lacertidae_, yet there are traces of wings."

Who acts: traces · What happens: develop, be

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 (traces), 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	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 limbs	nummod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 developed	advmod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 well	punct
4	developed	develop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 limbs	amod
5	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 appendage	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 appendage	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 appendage	amod
9	caudal	caudal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 appendage	amod
10	appendage	appendage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 limbs	appos
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 toes	punct
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 toes	nummod
13	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 appendage	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 unequal	punct
15	unequal	unequal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appendage	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 lengths	case
17	lengths	length	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 unequal	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 appendage	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Lacertidae	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Lacertidae	det
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 Lacertidae	punct
25	Lacertidae	Lacertidae	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 one	nmod
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 Lacertidae	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 are	punct
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	30 are	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 are	expl
30	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 one	parataxis
31	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 are	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 wings	case
33	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 traces	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 appendage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	develop	participle						well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	does	present	traces of wings			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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