The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 44
But quite suddenly the fire ahead gave a pale flicker and went down; and the clucking ceased.
Who acts: fire · What happens: give, go down, cluck, cease · To what, where: pale flicker
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 (fire), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 suddenly | advmod |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 gave | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 7 gave | advmod |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flicker | det |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flicker | amod |
| 10 | flicker | flicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 ceased | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ceased | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ceased | det |
| 17 | clucking | cluck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gave | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the fire | a pale flicker | ahead, suddenly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flicker=Theme | |||
| 2 | go down | past | the fire not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | cluck | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cease | participle · passive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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