The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 28

But the noise grew louder--and the two were so anxious not to hear it that he hammered away at the goat-shoe harder than he had ever hammered in his life, and she began to sing to the baby--a thing she had not had the heart to do for weeks.

Who acts: noise, two, blacksmith, most, heart · What happens: grow, be, not hear, hammer away, hammer, begin · To what, where: noise, life, baby, heart

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 (noise, two, blacksmith, most), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	xcomp
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 anxious	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 anxious	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 two	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 anxious	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 anxious	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 anxious	advmod
12	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hear	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hear	mark
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 anxious	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hammered	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hammered	nsubj
19	hammered	hammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	advcl
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 hammered	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	25 shoe	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shoe	det
23	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shoe	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 goat	punct
25	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hammered	obl
26	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 shoe	amod
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 hammered	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hammered	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hammered	aux
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 hammered	advmod
31	hammered	hammer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 harder	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 life	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hammered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 began	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 began	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 began	nsubj
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 sing	mark
40	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 baby	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 baby	det
43	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sing	obl
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 thing	punct
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 thing	det
46	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 baby	appos
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 had	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 had	advmod
50	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 thing	acl:relcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 heart	det
52	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 do	mark
54	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 had	xcomp
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 weeks	case
56	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 do	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the noise					loud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the two					anxious property	tree rules
3	not hear	to-infinitive	the two not said here	noise					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	hammer away	past	blacksmith					at the goat shoe; away property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at shoe=Patient
5	hammer	past · perfect	blacksmith			blacksmith's life	ever		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	most						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	most not said here		the baby				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to baby=Recipient
8	not have	past · perfect	most	the heart					tree rules
9	do	to-infinitive	the heart not said here				week		vn act-114-1 «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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