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

Their voices came up to the Princess on her tower, and she heard the words threaded on their screams like beads on sharp needles: "The dragon, the dragon, the dragon!

Who acts: voices, Princess, fields · What happens: come up, hear, thread, scream · To what, where: words

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 (voices, Princess, fields), 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

nmod:possnsubjadvmodcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccnsubjconjdetobjaclcasenmod:possoblcasenmodcaseamodnmodpunctpunctdetoblpunctdetconjpunctdetconjpunctrootTheirPRONvoicesNOUNcameVERBupADVtoADPtheDETPrincessNOUNonADPherPRONtowerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONheardVERBtheDETwordsNOUNthreadedVERBonADPtheirPRONscreamsNOUNlikeADPbeadsNOUNonADPsharpADJneedlesNOUN:PUNCT"PUNCTTheDETdragonNOUN,PUNCTtheDETdragonNOUN,PUNCTtheDETdragonNOUN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 voicesnmod:poss
2voicesvoiceNOUNNumber=Plur3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4upupADV_3 cameadvmod
5totoADP_7 Princesscase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Princessdet
7PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing3 cameobl
8ononADP_10 towercase
9herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 towernmod:poss
10towertowerNOUNNumber=Sing7 Princessnmod
11,,PUNCT_14 heardpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 heardcc
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 heardnsubj
14heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 wordsdet
16wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur14 heardobj
17threadedthreadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 wordsacl
18ononADP_20 screamscase
19theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 screamsnmod:poss
20screamsscreamNOUNNumber=Plur17 threadedobl
21likelikeADP_22 beadscase
22beadsbeadNOUNNumber=Plur20 screamsnmod
23ononADP_25 needlescase
24sharpsharpADJDegree=Pos25 needlesamod
25needlesneedleNOUNNumber=Plur22 beadsnmod
26::PUNCT_29 dragonpunct
27""PUNCT_29 dragonpunct
28ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 dragondet
29dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing14 heardobl
30,,PUNCT_32 dragonpunct
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 dragondet
32dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing29 dragonconj
33,,PUNCT_35 dragonpunct
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 dragondet
35dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing29 dragonconj
36!!PUNCT_3 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1come uppastfields's voicesto the Princess on Princess's towervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location
2hearpastPrincessthe wordsthe dragon and the dragon and the dragon oblvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3threadparticiplethe words not said hereon fields's screams like beads on sharp needlesvn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on scream=Co-Patient
4screamfields = fieldlike beads on sharp needlesnom scream «communication intransitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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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