The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 52
It was a tiny lizard, about half an inch long--with scales and wings.
Who acts: crown · What happens: be · To what, where: tiny lizard
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 (crown), 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 | 5 lizard | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lizard | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lizard | det |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lizard | amod |
| 5 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inch | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 inch | advmod |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 inch | det:predet |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 inch | det |
| 10 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lizard | conj |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 inch | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 scales | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 scales | case |
| 14 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lizard | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wings | cc |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scales | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lizard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | crown | a tiny lizard and half inch | 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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