The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 168
To begin with, the baby did not cry so much as it had before.
Who acts: baby, town · What happens: begin, not cry, have · To what, where: much
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, town), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 begin | mark |
| 2 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cry | advcl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 2 begin | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 begin | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cry | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cry | advmod |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cry | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 much | advcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 had | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | to-infinitive | the baby not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not cry speech: express | past · do-support | the baby | much | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | town | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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