The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 88
Our hearts are made of the finest sealskin, just like little fat sealskin purses--"
What happens: make · To what, where: hearts
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: 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sealskin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sealskin | det |
| 7 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 sealskin | amod |
| 8 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 purses | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 purses | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 purses | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 purses | amod |
| 13 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 purses | amod |
| 14 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purses | compound |
| 15 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Our hearts | of the finest sealskin; like little fat sealskin purses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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