The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 147
Hush, then--did 'ums, then."
What happens: do · To what, where: ums
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: 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 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hush | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ums | punct |
| 7 | ums | um | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ums | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 did | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | ums | then; then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |
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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