The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 76
It was much too narrow for the dragon to get in also, so they stayed in there and waited to make faces at the dragon when he felt rested enough to sit up and begin to think about eating them.
Who acts: knife, dragon, dragons, Harry · What happens: be, get in, stay in, wait, make, feel · To what, where: faces, dragons
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 (knife, dragon, dragons, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 narrow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 narrow | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 narrow | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 narrow | advmod |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 narrow | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 stayed | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stayed | nsubj |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 narrow | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 stayed | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stayed | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 waited | cc |
| 20 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stayed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 waited | xcomp |
| 23 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 dragon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obl |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 felt | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 felt | nsubj |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | advcl |
| 30 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 felt | xcomp |
| 31 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 30 rested | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 sit | mark |
| 33 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 rested | advcl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 sit | compound:prt |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 begin | cc |
| 36 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 sit | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 think | mark |
| 38 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 begin | xcomp |
| 39 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 40 eating | mark |
| 40 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 think | advcl |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 eating | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 narrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knife | narrow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in | to-infinitive | the dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stay in | past | dragons = dragon | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | dragons = dragon not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | dragons = dragon not said here | faces | at the dragon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product | |||
| 6 | feel | past | Harry | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | rest | participle | Harry not said here | enough property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sit up | to-infinitive | Harry not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | begin | present | Harry not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Harry not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | eat | gerund | Harry not said here | dragons = dragon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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