The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 48

There it sat, stroking itself with its feet and stretching its wings, and Harry said: "Why, it's a tiny newt!"

Who acts: earwig, Harry · What happens: sit, stroke, stretch, say, be · To what, where: earwig, wings, tiny newt · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (earwig, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stroking	punct
5	stroking	stroke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 stroking	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stroking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stretching	cc
11	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stroking	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stretching	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
20	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sat	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 newt	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 newt	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 newt	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 newt	det
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 newt	amod
26	newt	newt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	parataxis
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 newt	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 newt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	earwig		there		tree rules
2	stroke	gerund	earwig not said here	earwig		with earwig's feet	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent itself=Experiencer with foot=Instrument
3	stretch	gerund	earwig not said here	earwig's wings			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Harry				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	earwig	a tiny newt			tree rules

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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