The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 38

And now the clucking sounded more plainly than before, and he could hardly hear the rumbling at all.

Who acts: boy · What happens: cluck, sound, hear · To what, where: rumbling, 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: who acts (boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 sounded	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 clucking	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clucking	det
4	clucking	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 plainly	advmod
7	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	5 sounded	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 plainly	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hear	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 hear	advmod
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sounded	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rumbling	det
17	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hear	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cluck	gerund				now		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound	past					plainly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	hear	could	boy	the rumbling	all		hardly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumbling=Stimulus

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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