The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 26

And then the dragon uncurled himself from around the North Pole, and stretched his long, icy length over the snow, and said: "This is something like!

Who acts: dragon, This · What happens: uncurl, stretch, say, be · To what, where: friend, North Pole, long icy length, snow, something · Speech: someone speaks here

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, This), 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	_	5 uncurled	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 uncurled	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uncurled	nsubj
5	uncurled	uncurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 uncurled	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 Pole	case
8	around	around	ADP	_	11 Pole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pole	det
10	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Pole	compound
11	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 uncurled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stretched	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stretched	cc
14	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uncurled	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 length	nmod:poss
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 length	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 long	punct
18	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 length	amod
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stretched	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 snow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snow	det
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stretched	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uncurled	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 something	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 something	punct
28	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 something	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 something	cop
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 said	obl
31	like	like	ADP	_	30 something	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 uncurled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	uncurl	past	the dragon	friend	the North Pole	then	tree rules
2	stretch	past	the dragon not said here	friend's long icy length	the snow		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent length=Patient
3	say speech: express	past	the dragon not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	This	something			tree rules

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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