The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 70
But his claws were fast in Effie's sash and the little point at the back of Harry's Eton jacket.
Who acts: claws · What happens: be · To what, where: sash
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 (claws), 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 | _ | 9 sash | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 claws | nmod:poss |
| 3 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sash | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sash | cop |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 sash | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sash | case |
| 7 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sash | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Effie | case |
| 9 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 point | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 point | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 point | amod |
| 13 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sash | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 back | det |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 point | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 jacket | case |
| 18 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Harry | case |
| 20 | Eton | Eton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 jacket | compound |
| 21 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Harry's claws | Effie's sash and the little point at the back of Harry's Eton jacket | fast property | tree rules |
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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