The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 144

So the smaller rumbling must have been the drakling.

Who acts: smaller rumbling · What happens: be · To what, where: drakling

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smaller rumbling), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 drakling	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rumbling	det
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 rumbling	amod
4	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drakling	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 drakling	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 drakling	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 drakling	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drakling	det
9	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 drakling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must · perfect	the smaller rumbling	the drakling					tree rules

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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