The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 78
And with it he went exploring again to see if he could find the things that made the other sorts of noises.
Who acts: lantern, things · What happens: go, explore, see, find, make, sort · To what, where: things, other 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, things), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exploring | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 went | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 exploring | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 exploring | advcl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 things | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sorts | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sorts | amod |
| 20 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 noises | case |
| 22 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sorts | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | lantern | with chemical | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | explore | gerund | lantern not said here | again | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | lantern not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | lantern | the things | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make | past | the things | the other sorts of noises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product | ||||
| 6 | 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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