The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 24
Presently, over the noise of the bellows and over the clank of the iron, there came another sound.
Who acts: bellows · What happens: come, noise, clank · To what, where: sound, noise, iron
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 (bellows), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presently | punct |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 noise | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bellows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bellows | det |
| 8 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 noise | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clank | cc |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 clank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clank | det |
| 12 | clank | clank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bellows | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 iron | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 iron | det |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clank | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 noise | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 came | expl |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | another sound | the noise of the bellows and the clank of the iron; there | presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | |||
| 2 | noise | the bellows and the clank of the iron | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | clank | the iron | nom clank «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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