The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 56
And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.
What happens: come, crawl · To what, where: boot, 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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 boot | case |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 boot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boot | det |
| 5 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | crawling | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 came | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lizard | det |
| 9 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crawling | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 big | advmod |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lizard | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 kitten | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kitten | det |
| 14 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 big | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wings | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 wings | case |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wings | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 large | punct |
| 19 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wings | amod |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lizard | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the boot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | crawl | gerund | a lizard and large shiny wings | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lizard=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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