The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 91
Its mother had been so quiet that it thought she had settled down for the night, and that it was time to begin.
Who acts: mother, horse · What happens: be, think, settle down, begin · To what, where: time · 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 (mother, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:1161): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quiet | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 quiet | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 quiet | advmod |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quiet | advcl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 settled | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 settled | aux |
| 12 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 settled | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 settled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 time | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 time | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 time | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 time | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 time | cop |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 settled | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 begin | mark |
| 24 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 time | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | horse's mother | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | horse | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | settle down | past · perfect | mother | night | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | horse | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | begin | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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