The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 22
Across the fields troops of children were going out to gather the may, and the sound of their laughter and singing came up to the top of the tower.
Who acts: troops, sound · What happens: go out, gather, come up · To what, where: fields, top
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troops, sound), 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 3 fields | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fields | det |
| 3 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 going | obl |
| 4 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 going | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 children | case |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 troops | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 gather | mark |
| 11 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 may | det |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 gather | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sound | det |
| 17 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 laughter | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 singing | cc |
| 22 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laughter | conj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tower | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tower | det |
| 30 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · progressive | troops of children | the fields | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | troops of children not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come up | past | the sound of children's laughter and singing | the top of the tower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location |
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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