The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 38
The creature under his eye wriggled a little in the castor oil, and he went on: "Yes; a batlike wing.
Who acts: creature · What happens: wriggle, go on · To what, where: little, castor oil, batlike wing
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 (creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wriggled | nsubj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 eye | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 creature | nmod |
| 6 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wriggled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 oil | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oil | det |
| 11 | castor | castor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oil | compound |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wriggled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wriggled | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 wing | punct |
| 20 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 24 wing | discourse |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Yes | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wing | det |
| 23 | batlike | batlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wing | amod |
| 24 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wriggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wriggle | past | the creature under creature's eye | a little | the castor oil | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go on | past | creature | a batlike wing | vn function-105.2.1 «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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