The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 149
But when he began to sing "Hush-a-by, Dragon," the baby screamed more and more and more. "
Who acts: peace, baby · What happens: begin, sing, scream · To what, where: Dragon, Hush
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 (peace, baby), 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 | _ | 19 screamed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 began | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 screamed | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sing | mark |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hush | punct |
| 8 | Hush | Hush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | obj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Hush | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 began | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dragon | punct |
| 14 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 screamed | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 baby | det |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 screamed | nsubj |
| 19 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 screamed | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 more | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 more | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 more | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 screamed | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | peace | Dragon | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | peace not said here | Hush | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hush=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | the baby | 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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