The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 57
The dragon certainly was beautiful, with his deep, clear Prussian blueness, and his rainbow-colored glitter.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, color
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), 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 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blueness | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blueness | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blueness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blueness | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 deep | punct |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blueness | amod |
| 12 | Prussian | prussian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blueness | amod |
| 13 | blueness | blueness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glitter | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 glitter | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 glitter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 colored | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 rainbow | punct |
| 19 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 glitter | amod |
| 20 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blueness | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon | with dragon's deep clear Prussian blueness and dragon's colored glitter; beautiful, certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=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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