The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 114
Its china label was quite coated over with dirt and cobwebs.
Who acts: Rain · What happens: coat over, label · To what, where: china label
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rain), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 label | nmod:poss |
| 2 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 label | compound |
| 3 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coated | aux:pass |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 coated | advmod |
| 6 | coated | coat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 coated | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dirt | case |
| 9 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coated | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cobwebs | cc |
| 11 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dirt | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 coated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coat over | past · passive | Rain's china label | with dirt and cobwebs; over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dirt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | label | Rain | nom label «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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