The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 23
And as he worked his wife sat and nursed the baby, who, for a wonder, was not crying.
Who acts: John, wife · What happens: work, sit, nurse, not cry · To what, where: baby
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 (John, wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 worked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 worked | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worked | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nursed | cc |
| 9 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nursed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wonder | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wonder | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wonder | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 wonder | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wonder | det |
| 17 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baby | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crying | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crying | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 crying | advmod |
| 21 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 nursed | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | John | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | John's wife | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | nurse | past | John's wife not said here | the baby | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not cry speech: express | past · progressive | John's wife not said here | 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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