The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 68
The wood was very still--no crashing of branches and no smell of burning came to alarm the Prince.
Who acts: wood, burning · What happens: be, come, smell
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 (wood, burning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 still | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 still | advmod |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 wood | acl:relcl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 crashing | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 crashing | det |
| 8 | crashing | crashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wood | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 branches | case |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crashing | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smell | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 smell | det |
| 13 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 branches | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 burning | case |
| 15 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smell | nmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 alarm | mark |
| 18 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wood and no crashing of branches and no smell of burning not said here | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the wood and no crashing of branches and no smell of burning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smell | burning | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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