The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 68
But the dragon held on tight, and he flew and flew and flew until at last, when the children were quite giddy, he settled down, with a rattling of all his scales, on the top of a mountain.
Who acts: dragon, Harry, children, scales · What happens: hold, fly, be, settle down, rattle · To what, where: tight, top
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, Harry, children, scales), 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 | _ | 4 held | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 tight | case |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 held | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flew | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flew | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 15 | until | until | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 giddy | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 giddy | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 children | det |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 giddy | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 giddy | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 giddy | advmod |
| 24 | giddy | giddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flew | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 settled | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 settled | nsubj |
| 27 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flew | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 settled | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rattling | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 rattling | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 rattling | det |
| 32 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 settled | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 scales | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 scales | det:predet |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 scales | nmod:poss |
| 36 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rattling | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 top | punct |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 top | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 top | det |
| 40 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 settled | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 mountain | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 mountain | det |
| 43 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 top | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | the dragon | tight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Harry | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | Harry not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly | past | Harry not said here | until last | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the children | giddy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | settle down | past | Harry | the top of a mountain | with a rattling of Harry's scales | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | rattle | Harry's scales | nom rattling «event intransitive»: of=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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