The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 90
At this moment the baby in the room above began to scream.
Who acts: baby · What happens: begin, scream
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 (baby), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | nmod |
| 9 | above | above | ADV | _ | 10 began | advmod |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 scream | mark |
| 12 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the baby in the room | moment | above property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | to-infinitive | the baby in the room 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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