The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 67
George kicked his boots against the fencing to warm his toes. "
Who acts: George · What happens: kick, warm · To what, where: boots, fencing, toes
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kicked | nsubj |
| 2 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 boots | nmod:poss |
| 4 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kicked | obj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 fencing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fencing | det |
| 7 | fencing | fencing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kicked | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 warm | mark |
| 9 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kicked | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 toes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warm | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kicked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 kicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | George | edge's boots | the fencing | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boot=Patient against fencing=Location | |||
| 2 | warm | to-infinitive | George not said here | edge's toes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toe=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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