The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 130
So down went the blacksmith, and there was the dragon purring away with all his might to keep the baby quiet.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: go, be, purr away, keep · To what, where: blacksmith, baby quiet
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 (dragon), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blacksmith | det |
| 5 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | purring | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 dragon | acl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 purring | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 keep | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 keep | nmod:poss |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 purring | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 quiet | det |
| 21 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 quiet | compound |
| 22 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the blacksmith | down property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blacksmith=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the dragon | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | purr away | gerund | the dragon not said here | away property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | might | the dragon not said here | the baby quiet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiet=Theme |
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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