The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 107
So the dragon purred, and his purring pleased the baby so much that it stopped crying.
Who acts: purring · What happens: purr, stop, cry · To what, where: dragon
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purring), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | purred | purr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dragon | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pleased | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 purring | nmod:poss |
| 8 | purring | purring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 stopped | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleased | advcl |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 stopped | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | participle | the dragon not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stop | past | purring | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | purring not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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