The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 49
It's almost like"--she moved back a step to get a better view of it--"it's almost like a dragon."
Who acts: lump · What happens: be, get, view · To what, where: better view, lump
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 (lump), 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 | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 moved | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 moved | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 almost | fixed |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 almost | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 moved | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 step | det |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 moved | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 view | det |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 view | amod |
| 16 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 view | nmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 dragon | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 dragon | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dragon | nsubj |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 dragon | cop |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 26 dragon | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 dragon | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | lump | a step obl:unmarked; almost, move property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | lump not said here | a better view of lump | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | lump | like a dragon; almost property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | view in a quote | lump | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=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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