The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 63

He never barked at things that went on in the island--he was too large-minded for that; but when ships went blundering by in the dark, tumbling over the rocks at the end of the island, he would bark once or twice, just to let the ships know that they couldn't come playing about there just as they liked.

Who acts: Tom, things, ships · What happens: not bark, go on, mind, go, blunder, tumble · To what, where: island, Tom, rocks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, things, ships), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 barked	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 barked	advmod
3	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 things	case
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 barked	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 went	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 island	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 island	det
11	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 minded	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 minded	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 minded	aux:pass
15	too	too	ADV	_	18 minded	advmod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 minded	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 large	punct
18	minded	mind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 barked	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 minded	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 bark	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 bark	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 went	advmod
24	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 bark	advcl
26	blundering	blunder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 went	xcomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 dark	case
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 dark	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dark	det
30	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blundering	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tumbling	punct
32	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 blundering	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 rocks	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rocks	det
35	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tumbling	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 end	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tumbling	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 island	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 island	det
41	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 end	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 bark	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 bark	aux
45	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 barked	parataxis
46	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	45 bark	advmod
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 twice	cc
48	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	46 once	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 let	punct
50	just	just	ADV	_	52 let	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 let	mark
52	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 bark	parataxis
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ships	det
54	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 know	nsubj
55	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 let	parataxis
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 come	mark
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 come	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 come	aux
59	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 come	advmod
60	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 know	ccomp
61	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	60 come	xcomp
62	about	about	ADV	_	63 there	advmod
63	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 playing	advmod
64	just	just	ADV	_	67 liked	advmod
65	as	as	SCONJ	_	67 liked	mark
66	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 liked	nsubj
67	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 playing	advcl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 barked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bark	past	Tom				at things	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at thing=Stimulus
2	go on	past	things		the island			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in island=Location
3	mind	past · passive		Tom			for that	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	go	past	ships					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	blunder	gerund	ships not said here				by the dark	tree rules
6	tumble	gerund	ships not said here		the rocks	at the end of the island		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over rock=Initial_Location
7	bark	would	Tom				once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	let	to-infinitive						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
9	know	present	the ships					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	not come	could	ships = ship					tree rules
11	play about	gerund	ships = ship not said here		there			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	like	past	ships = ship					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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