The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 30

It was like the noise of some great creature purring, purring, purring--and the reason they did not want to believe they really heard it was that it came from the great dungeon down below, where the old iron was, and the firewood and the twopence worth of coal, and the broken steps that went down into the dark and ended no one knew where.

Who acts: noise, great creature, blowing, reason, broken steps, old iron · What happens: be, purr, not want, believe, hear, break · To what, where: reason, noise, great dungeon, dark, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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, great creature, blowing, reason), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 noise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noise	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 noise	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 noise	det
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 creature	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 creature	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 creature	amod
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noise	nmod
10	purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 creature	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 purring	punct
12	purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 purring	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 purring	punct
14	purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 purring	conj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 reason	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reason	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reason	det
18	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noise	parataxis
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 want	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 want	advmod
22	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 reason	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 believe	mark
24	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 want	xcomp
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
26	really	really	ADV	_	27 heard	advmod
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 believe	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	obj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	cop
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 reason	acl
33	from	from	ADP	_	36 dungeon	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dungeon	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dungeon	amod
36	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
37	down	down	ADV	_	38 below	advmod
38	below	below	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 knew	punct
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	70 knew	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 iron	det
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 iron	amod
43	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 knew	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 knew	cop
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 knew	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 knew	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 firewood	det
48	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 knew	nsubj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 worth	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 worth	det
51	twopence	twopence	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 worth	compound
52	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 firewood	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 coal	case
54	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 worth	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 steps	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 steps	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 steps	det
58	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 steps	amod
59	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 firewood	conj
60	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 went	nsubj
61	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 steps	acl:relcl
62	down	down	ADV	_	61 went	advmod
63	into	into	ADP	_	65 dark	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 dark	det
65	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 went	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 ended	cc
67	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 went	conj
68	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	69 one	det
69	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 ended	obj
70	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 below	advcl
71	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	70 knew	advmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 noise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	noise			like the noise; of some great creature	tree rules
2	purr	gerund	some great creature not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	purr	gerund	some great creature not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	purr	gerund	some great creature not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not want	past · do-support	blowing	the reason not said here			tree rules
6	believe not said to happen	to-infinitive	the reason not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	hear	past	blowing	noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	is	past	noise	the reason not said here	the great dungeon	below, come property	tree rules
9	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
10	go down	past	the broken steps		the dark	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
11	end	past	the broken steps not said here	no one			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality
12	is	past	the old iron			know property	tree rules

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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