The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 126
The dragon had not moved yet--but then he might at any moment get warm enough to move, and though George and Jane were now warm they were not comfortable nor easy in their minds.
Who acts: dragon, George, friends · What happens: not move, get, move, be, not be, mind · To what, where: minds
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 (dragon, George, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 moved | advmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 might | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 might | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 might | obl |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moved | conj |
| 16 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | xcomp |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 warm | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 move | mark |
| 19 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 warm | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 comfortable | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 comfortable | cc |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 warm | mark |
| 23 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 warm | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Jane | cc |
| 25 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 George | conj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 warm | cop |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 warm | advmod |
| 28 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 comfortable | advcl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 comfortable | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 comfortable | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 comfortable | advmod |
| 32 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | advcl |
| 33 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 easy | cc |
| 34 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 comfortable | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 minds | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 minds | nmod:poss |
| 37 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 easy | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past · perfect | the dragon | yet | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | might | the dragon not said here | warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | the dragon not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | George and Jane | now | warm property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not is | past | friends = friend | comfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | friends = friend not said here | friends's minds | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | mind | friends = friend | nom mind «cognition 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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