The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 31

Now at the lip of the water, Nigel paused and looked back, and the dragon made a bound, beginning a scream of rage that was like all the engines of all the railways in England.

Who acts: Nigel, dragon, that, rage · What happens: pause, look back, make, begin, be, scream · To what, where: bound, scream

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nigel, dragon, that, rage), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 paused	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 lip	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lip	det
4	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lip	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
9	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 paused	nsubj
10	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 paused	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dragon	det
17	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 paused	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bound	det
20	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beginning	punct
22	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 made	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 scream	det
24	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beginning	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 rage	case
26	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scream	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 engines	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 engines	cop
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 engines	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 engines	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 engines	det
32	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rage	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 railways	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 railways	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 railways	det
36	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 engines	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 England	case
38	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 railways	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pause	past	Nigel		now		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	look back	past	Nigel not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	make	past	the dragon	a bound			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Product
4	begin	gerund	the dragon not said here	a scream of rage			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Eventuality
5	is	past	that			like all engines; of all railways in England	tree rules
6	scream		rage				nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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