The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 89
"And your ruby clasps."
Who acts: ruby · What happens: clasp
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 (ruby), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clasps | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 clasps | cc |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ruby | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clasps | nsubj |
| 5 | clasps | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clasps | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clasps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp in a quote | present | your ruby | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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