The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 64

They were green with scales, and they had four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats' wings, only the wings were a pale, half-transparent yellow, like the gear-boxes on bicycles.

Who acts: sizes · What happens: be, have · To what, where: four legs, bicycles

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 (sizes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 green	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 green	cop
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 scales	case
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 green	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 green	parataxis
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 legs	nummod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tail	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tail	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tail	amod
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wings	cc
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wings	amod
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 legs	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 wings	case
20	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wings	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 bats	case
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wings	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wings	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 wings	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wings	det
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 legs	conj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 boxes	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 boxes	det
29	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 boxes	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pale	punct
31	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	33 transparent	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 half	punct
33	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 yellow	amod
34	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 boxes	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 boxes	punct
36	like	like	ADP	_	40 boxes	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boxes	det
38	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 boxes	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 gear	punct
40	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 legs	conj
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 bicycles	case
42	bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 boxes	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sizes = size			with scales; green property	tree rules
2	have	past	sizes = size	four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats's wings and the wings and a pale yellow gear boxes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	is	past	sizes = size not said here		bicycles	like a pale yellow gear boxes	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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