The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 86
Then he knocked and rang, and there was a rattling and puffing inside.
Who acts: boy, rattling · What happens: knock, ring, be
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, rattling), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knocked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knocked | nsubj |
| 3 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rang | cc |
| 5 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knocked | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knocked | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rattling | det |
| 11 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 puffing | cc |
| 13 | puffing | puffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rattling | conj |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 13 puffing | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | boy | then | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ring | past | boy not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | a rattling and puffing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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