The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 92
And their faces were like seals' faces, inasmuch as they, too, were covered with sealskin.
Who acts: faces · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: dwarfs
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 (faces), 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 | _ | 4 were | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faces | nmod:poss |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 faces | case |
| 6 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 faces | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 seals | case |
| 8 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inasmuch | punct |
| 10 | inasmuch | inasmuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 faces | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 covered | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 they | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 covered | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux:pass |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 were | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sealskin | case |
| 19 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | dwarfs's faces | like seals's faces and inasmuch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | dwarfs = dwarf | with sealskin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sealskin=Theme |
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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