The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 61
Nasty, thin, sharp tongues they were too.
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: 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 | Nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tongues | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nasty | punct |
| 3 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tongues | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thin | punct |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tongues | amod |
| 6 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 were | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tongues | acl:relcl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 were | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tongues | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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