The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 53
And, sure enough, it _was_ a dragon--a great, shining, winged, scaly, clawy, big-mouthed dragon--made of pure ice.
Who acts: lump · What happens: be, shine, wing, mouth, make · To what, where: dragon, big mouthed dragon
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sure | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 sure | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dragon | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 it | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dragon | cop |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 dragon | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 great | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 great | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dragon | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shining | punct |
| 16 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 great | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 winged | punct |
| 18 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 shining | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scaly | punct |
| 20 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dragon | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 clawy | punct |
| 22 | clawy | clawy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 scaly | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dragon | punct |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dragon | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 big | punct |
| 26 | mouthed | mouth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 dragon | amod |
| 27 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dragon | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 dragon | acl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ice | case |
| 31 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ice | amod |
| 32 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lump | a dragon and big mouthed dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | lump not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wing | participle | lump not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mouth | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make | participle | big mouthed dragon not said here | of pure ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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