The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 33

There was a heavy rumbling sound, like a very large old gentleman asleep after dinner; and there was a smaller sort of rumble going on at the same time; and there was a sort of crowing, clucking sound, such as a chicken might make if it happened to be as big as a haystack.

Who acts: heavy rumbling sound, rumble, sort, chicken, it · What happens: be, go on, crow, cluck, make, happen · To what, where: smaller sort, sort, sound

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 (heavy rumbling sound, rumble, sort, chicken), 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sound	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	amod
5	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	compound
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gentleman	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	13 gentleman	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gentleman	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 large	advmod
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gentleman	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gentleman	amod
13	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	conj
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gentleman	amod
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 dinner	case
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gentleman	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sort	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 was	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sort	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sort	det
22	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 sort	amod
23	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 rumble	case
25	rumble	rumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sort	nmod
26	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 rumble	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 going	compound:prt
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 time	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 time	amod
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sort	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 was	cc
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sort	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sort	det
37	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 crowing	mark
39	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 sort	acl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 clucking	punct
41	clucking	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 crowing	conj
42	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 clucking	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 make	punct
44	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	49 make	mark
45	as	as	ADP	_	44 such	fixed
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 chicken	det
47	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 make	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 make	aux
49	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 sort	parataxis
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 happened	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 happened	nsubj
52	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 make	ccomp
53	to	to	PART	_	56 big	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 big	cop
55	as	as	ADV	_	56 big	advmod
56	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 happened	ccomp
57	as	as	ADP	_	59 haystack	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 haystack	det
59	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 big	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a heavy rumbling sound and a large old gentleman after dinner		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	a heavy rumbling sound and a large old gentleman after dinner not said here	a smaller sort			of rumble	tree rules
3	go on	gerund	rumble not said here			time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		a sort				tree rules
5	crow	gerund	a sort not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cluck	gerund	a sort not said here	sound				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
7	make	might	a chicken					tree rules
8	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	to-infinitive					as a haystack; big property	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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