The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 16

As for the baby, it cried a good deal at odd times; but at night, when its mother had settled down to sleep, it would always begin to cry, quite as a matter of course, so that she hardly got any rest at all.

Who acts: baby, hair, course · What happens: cry, settle down, sleep, begin, get, matter · To what, where: good deal, mother, rest, all

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 (baby, hair, course), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 baby	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 baby	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 deal	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deal	amod
10	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 times	case
12	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 settled	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 settled	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 settled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 night	punct
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 settled	mark
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 settled	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 settled	aux
23	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cried	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 settled	compound:prt
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sleep	mark
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 settled	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 begin	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 begin	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 begin	aux
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 begin	advmod
31	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cry	mark
33	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 begin	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 matter	punct
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 matter	advmod
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 matter	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 matter	det
38	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 begin	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 course	case
40	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 matter	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 got	punct
42	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 got	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 so	fixed
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 got	nsubj
45	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	46 got	advmod
46	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
47	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	48 rest	det
48	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 got	obj
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 all	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 got	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	baby	a good deal		time	as the baby	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic
2	settle down	past · perfect · passive		baby's mother		night		tree rules
3	sleep	to-infinitive						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	would	baby				as a matter of course; always property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	baby not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	past	hair	any rest	all		hardly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rest=Theme at all=Asset
7	matter		course					nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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