The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 32

Presently he sat down in the biggest cave and listened very carefully, and it seemed to him that he could distinguish three different sorts of noises.

Who acts: lantern, it · What happens: sit down, listen, seem, distinguish, sort · To what, where: biggest cave, lantern, three different sorts, noises

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 (lantern, it), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cave	det
7	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 cave	amod
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 listened	cc
10	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 carefully	advmod
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 listened	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seemed	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 distinguish	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 distinguish	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 distinguish	aux
22	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seemed	xcomp
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sorts	nummod
24	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sorts	amod
25	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 distinguish	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 noises	case
27	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sorts	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	lantern			the biggest cave	presently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location
2	listen	past	lantern not said here				carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it		lantern			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	distinguish	could	lantern	three different sorts of noises				vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute sort=Theme
5	sort			noises				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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