The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 69
And he lay there on his great green scaly side, panting, and very much out of breath, because he had come such a long way.
Who acts: Harry · What happens: lie, pant, come · To what, where: great green scaly side, breath, long way
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 (Harry), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 9 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 panting | punct |
| 12 | panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 breath | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 breath | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 breath | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 breath | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 breath | case |
| 19 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 panting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | conj |
| 25 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 way | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Harry | Harry's great green scaly side; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | pant | gerund | Harry not said here | breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | Harry | such long way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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