The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 29

But through the blowing and hammering and singing the noise came louder and louder, and the more they tried not to hear it, the more they had to.

Who acts: blowing · What happens: sing, come, try, not hear, have · To what, where: noise, blowing

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 (blowing), 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	_	11 came	cc
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 blowing	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blowing	det
4	blowing	blowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hammering	cc
6	hammering	hammering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blowing	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 singing	cc
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blowing	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singing	obj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 came	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 louder	cc
14	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 louder	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tried	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 more	det
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 tried	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tried	nsubj
20	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 hear	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tried	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hear	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 more	det
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 had	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	29 had	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		the noise			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme
2	come	past			the blowing and hammering	loud property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through blowing=Initial_Location
3	try	past	blowing				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	blowing not said here	noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	have	past	blowing				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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