The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 124
So now the children snuggled under the feathers and were warm, and when the sealskin dwarfs tried to take the feathers away, the grouse and his friends flew in their faces with flappings and screams, and drove the dwarfs back.
Who acts: children, sealskin dwarfs, friends · What happens: snuggle, be, try, take away, fly, drive back · To what, where: feathers, faces, dwarfs
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, sealskin dwarfs, friends), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 snuggled | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 children | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snuggled | nsubj |
| 5 | snuggled | snuggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 feathers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feathers | det |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snuggled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 warm | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 warm | cop |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snuggled | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tried | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 tried | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dwarfs | det |
| 16 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwarfs | compound |
| 17 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tried | nsubj |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 snuggled | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 feathers | det |
| 22 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grouse | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grouse | det |
| 26 | grouse | grouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flew | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 friends | nmod:poss |
| 29 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 flew | nsubj |
| 30 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 faces | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 faces | nmod:poss |
| 33 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 flew | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 flappings | case |
| 35 | flappings | flapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 flew | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 screams | cc |
| 37 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 flappings | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 drove | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 drove | cc |
| 40 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 snuggled | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 dwarfs | det |
| 42 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 drove | obj |
| 43 | back | back | ADV | _ | 40 drove | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 snuggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snuggle | past | the children | the feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the children not said here | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | past | the sealskin dwarfs | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sealskin dwarfs not said here | the feathers | the grouse obl; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | |||
| 5 | fly | past | grouse's friends | feathers's faces | with flappings and screams | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in face=Location | |||
| 6 | drive back | past | the children not said here | the dwarfs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=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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