The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 24
It grew colder and colder and colder, and even under the grouse feathers the children shivered.
Who acts: dragon, children · What happens: grow, shiver · To what, where: grouse feathers
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, children), 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 | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 colder | cc |
| 5 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 colder | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 colder | cc |
| 7 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 colder | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shivered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shivered | cc |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 feathers | advmod |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 feathers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 feathers | det |
| 13 | grouse | grouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feathers | compound |
| 14 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shivered | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shivered | nsubj |
| 17 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | dragon | cold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shiver | past | the children | the grouse feathers | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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