The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 29
But when the fires were out he felt quite well, and very hungry.
Who acts: fires, friend · What happens: be out, feel
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 (fires, friend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 were | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fires | det |
| 4 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 were | compound:prt |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 well | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hungry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hungry | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 hungry | advmod |
| 14 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be out | past | the fires | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | friend | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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