The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 56

And the boy heard, though he did not know he heard, and he looked out over the black sea with the white foam-horses galloping over it, and far away he saw a light.

Who acts: boy, white foam horses · What happens: hear, not know, look out, gallop, see · To what, where: black sea, sea, light · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, white foam horses), 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 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 know	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	ccomp
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 looked	compound:prt
18	over	over	ADP	_	21 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sea	amod
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	27 horses	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horses	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 horses	amod
25	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 horses	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 foam	punct
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	obl
28	galloping	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 horses	acl
29	over	over	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 galloping	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 saw	cc
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 away	advmod
34	away	away	ADV	_	36 saw	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 saw	nsubj
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 light	det
38	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 saw	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the boy				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not know	past · do-support	boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hear	past	boy				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	look out	past	boy		the black sea	with the white foam horses	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	gallop	gerund	the white foam horses not said here		sea		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
6	see	past	boy	a light		away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=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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