The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 59
The dragon was flying across woods and fields with great flaps of his wings that carried him a quarter of a mile at each flap.
Who acts: dragon, wings · What happens: fly, carry · To what, where: woods, Harry, flap
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 (dragon, wings), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | aux |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flying | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fields | cc |
| 8 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 woods | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 flaps | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flaps | amod |
| 11 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flying | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flaps | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wings | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 quarter | det |
| 19 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mile | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mile | det |
| 22 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quarter | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 flap | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 flap | det |
| 25 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · progressive | the dragon | woods and fields | with great flaps of Harry's wings | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Harry's wings | Harry | each flap | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary quarter=Value |
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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