The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 138
The dragon had purred till he was quite out of breath--so now he stopped, and as soon as everything was quiet the baby thought everyone must have settled for the night, and that it was time to begin to scream.
Who acts: Dragon, everything, baby, breath · What happens: purr, be, stop, think, settle, begin · To what, where: dragon, breath, everyone, time · Speech: someone speaks here
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, everything, baby, breath), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 purred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 purred | aux |
| 4 | purred | purr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 breath | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 breath | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 breath | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 breath | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 breath | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 breath | case |
| 11 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 purred | advcl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 stopped | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 stopped | advmod |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stopped | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 purred | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 quiet | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 quiet | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 quiet | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 quiet | case |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 quiet | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 quiet | cop |
| 24 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stopped | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 baby | det |
| 26 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 quiet | parataxis |
| 28 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 settled | aux |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 settled | aux |
| 31 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 night | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 night | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 settled | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 time | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 time | cc |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 time | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 time | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 time | cop |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 settled | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 begin | mark |
| 42 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 time | acl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 scream | mark |
| 44 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 begin | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 purred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | past · perfect · passive | the dragon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Dragon | breath | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | Dragon | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | everything | quiet, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | the baby | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | settle | must · perfect · passive | everyone | night | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | breath | time | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | begin | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 9 | scream speech: express | to-infinitive | 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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