The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 74
But with her help Harry managed to wriggle quietly out of his sleeves, so that the dragon had only an Eton jacket in his other claw.
Who acts: Harry, dragon, Effie · What happens: manage, wriggle, have, help · To what, where: sleeves, Eton jacket, other claw
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, dragon, Effie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:557): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 managed | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 help | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 help | nmod:poss |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 managed | obl |
| 5 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 managed | nsubj |
| 6 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wriggle | mark |
| 8 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 managed | xcomp |
| 9 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 wriggle | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sleeves | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sleeves | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wriggle | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 had | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 managed | advcl |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 jacket | advmod |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 jacket | det |
| 22 | Eton | Eton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 jacket | compound |
| 23 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 claw | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 claw | nmod:poss |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 claw | amod |
| 27 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | Harry | with Effie's help | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wriggle | to-infinitive | Harry not said here | Harry's sleeves | quietly property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | have | past | the dragon | a Eton jacket | Harry's other claw | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacket=Patient | |||
| 4 | help | Effie | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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