The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 7
Effie held her brother's hand very tight, and once when a fat dragon flopped against her ear she screamed out, and a whole flight of green dragons rose from the field at the sound, and sprawled away across the sky.
Who acts: Effie, fat dragon, whole flight · What happens: hold, flop, scream out, rise, sprawl away · To what, where: hand, ear, field, sky
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 (Effie, fat dragon, whole 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 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 brother | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 tight | advmod |
| 8 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 held | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flopped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flopped | cc |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 flopped | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 flopped | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 14 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dragon | amod |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flopped | nsubj |
| 16 | flopped | flop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 ear | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flopped | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 screamed | nsubj |
| 21 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ear | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 screamed | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rose | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 rose | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 flight | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 flight | amod |
| 27 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rose | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dragons | case |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dragons | amod |
| 30 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 flight | nmod |
| 31 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 field | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 field | det |
| 34 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rose | obl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 sound | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sound | det |
| 37 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rose | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sprawled | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sprawled | cc |
| 40 | sprawled | sprawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 sprawled | advmod |
| 42 | across | across | ADP | _ | 44 sky | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sky | det |
| 44 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sprawled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Effie | Effie's brother's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flop | past | a fat dragon | Effie's ear | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against ear=Location | |||
| 3 | scream out speech: express | past | Effie | Effie's ear not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | a whole flight of green dragons | the field | at the sound | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sound=Location | |||
| 5 | sprawl away | past | Effie not said here | the sky | away property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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