The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 77
He was very angry, indeed, when they made faces at him, and blew out fire and smoke at them, but they ran farther into the cave so that he could not reach them, and when he was tired of blowing he went away.
Who acts: Harry, dragons · What happens: be, make, blow out, run, not reach, blow · To what, where: faces, fire, 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 (Harry, dragons), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 indeed | punct |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 made | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | parataxis |
| 11 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blew | cc |
| 16 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 blew | compound:prt |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blew | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smoke | cc |
| 20 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fire | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 blew | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 27 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 ran | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 cave | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cave | det |
| 30 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 farther | obl |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 reach | mark |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 so | fixed |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 reach | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 reach | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 reach | advmod |
| 36 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ran | advcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 reach | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 tired | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 tired | cc |
| 40 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 43 tired | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 tired | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 tired | cop |
| 43 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 angry | parataxis |
| 44 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 45 blowing | mark |
| 45 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 tired | advcl |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 went | nsubj |
| 47 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 blowing | ccomp |
| 48 | away | away | ADV | _ | 47 went | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Harry | angry, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | dragons = dragon | faces | at Harry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product | |||
| 3 | blow out | past | dragons = dragon not said here | fire and smoke | at dragons = dragon | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | |||
| 4 | run | past | dragons = dragon | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not reach | could | Harry | dragons = dragon | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Harry | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | blow | gerund | Harry not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | go away | past | Harry | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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