The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 32

But it never uttered the second half of that scream, for now it knew suddenly that it was sleepy--it turned to hurry back to dry land, because sleeping near whirlpools is so unsafe.

Who acts: scream, sleeping · What happens: not utter, know, be, turn, hurry back, sleep · To what, where: second half, dry land, whirlpools

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 (scream, sleeping), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 uttered	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 uttered	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 uttered	advmod
4	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 uttered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 scream	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 scream	det
10	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 half	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 now	case
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 knew	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	conj
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 knew	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 sleepy	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sleepy	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sleepy	cop
20	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knew	advcl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hurry	mark
25	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 turned	xcomp
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 hurry	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 land	case
28	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 land	amod
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hurry	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 unsafe	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 unsafe	mark
32	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 unsafe	csubj
33	near	near	ADP	_	34 whirlpools	case
34	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sleeping	obl
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 unsafe	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 unsafe	advmod
37	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 turned	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not utter speech: other	past	scream	the second half of that scream			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent half=Topic
2	know	past	scream			suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	scream			sleepy property	tree rules
4	turn	past	scream				tree rules
5	hurry back	to-infinitive	scream not said here		dry land		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination
6	sleep	gerund			whirlpools		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	sleeping			unsafe property	tree rules

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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