The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 27
But he shook his head again and pushed the sword back as the flight of dragons grew small in the distance.
Who acts: half, flight · What happens: shake, push back, grow · To what, where: head, sword
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 (half, flight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 shook | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 shook | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pushed | cc |
| 8 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushed | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 pushed | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 grew | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flight | det |
| 14 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dragons | case |
| 16 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flight | nmod |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pushed | advcl |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 distance | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 distance | det |
| 21 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | half | half's head | again | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | push back | past | half not said here | the sword | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the flight of dragons | in the distance; small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=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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