The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 55
And this Something came from the farther side of the seventh world, and whispered in the boy's ear.
Who acts: Something · What happens: come, whisper · To what, where: farther side, ear
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something), 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 | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Something | det |
| 3 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 11 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whispered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whispered | cc |
| 15 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 came | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ear | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 boy | case |
| 20 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whispered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Something | the farther side of the seventh world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | participle | Something not said here | the boy's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
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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