The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 60
And the snakes had been so badly brought up that they even put their tongues out at the poor lady.
Who acts: snakes · What happens: bring up, put out · To what, where: snakes, tongues
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 (snakes), 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 | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snakes | det |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 brought | advmod |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 brought | advmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 brought | compound:prt |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 put | advmod |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 put | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 lady | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lady | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lady | amod |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past · perfect · passive | the snakes | badly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put out | present | snakes = snake | snakes's tongues | at the poor lady; out property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at lady=Destination |
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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