The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 175
The two children used to go together to peep through the iron grating at the dragon, and sometimes they would hear him mew piteously.
Who acts: iron, children, Dragon · What happens: use, go together, peep, grate, hear, mew · To what, where: two children, Dragon
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 (iron, children, Dragon), 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 | 3 children | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 children | nummod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 peep | mark |
| 9 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 iron | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 iron | det |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peep | obl |
| 13 | grating | grate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 iron | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 dragon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grating | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hear | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hear | cc |
| 19 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 hear | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hear | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hear | aux |
| 22 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hear | obj |
| 24 | mew | mew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hear | xcomp |
| 25 | piteously | piteously | ADV | _ | 24 mew | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle · passive | the two children | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go together | to-infinitive | together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | peep | to-infinitive | through the iron | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through iron=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grate | gerund | the iron not said here | at the dragon | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus at dragon=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | hear | would | children = child | Dragon | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | mew | infinitive | Dragon not said here | piteously property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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