The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 60
That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country.
Who acts: dragon, next morning, lizards · What happens: bite, try, chase, be, wing, appear · To what, where: afternoon, garden, rabbit, country
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 (dragon, next morning, lizards), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 afternoon | det |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Towser | Towser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 afternoon | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitten | aux:pass |
| 5 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitten | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 dragon | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitten | obl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 size | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 size | det |
| 14 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dragon | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rabbit | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rabbit | det |
| 17 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 size | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tried | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tried | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tried | aux |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 chase | mark |
| 24 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tried | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 full | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 full | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 morning | det |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 morning | amod |
| 29 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 full | nsubj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 papers | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 papers | det |
| 32 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 full | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 full | cop |
| 34 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bitten | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 wonderful | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wonderful | det |
| 37 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 full | obl |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 winged | punct |
| 39 | winged | wing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wonderful | conj |
| 40 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 appearing | nsubj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 lizards | punct |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 appearing | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 appearing | aux |
| 44 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 winged | ccomp |
| 45 | all | all | ADV | _ | 48 country | advmod |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 country | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 country | det |
| 48 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 appearing | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bitten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past · passive | a dragon about the size of a rabbit | that afternoon | the garden | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Patient in garden=Location | |||
| 2 | try | past · perfect · passive | a rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | chase not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the next morning | of the wonderful; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wing in a quote | past | the next morning not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | appear | past · progressive | lizards | the country | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=Location |
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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