The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 232
There was a thunderstorm and an earthquake, that's all."
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 all | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thunderstorm | det |
| 4 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 earthquake | cc |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 earthquake | det |
| 7 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thunderstorm | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 all | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 all | cop |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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