The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 68

And all the time the Mexican lapdog barked so that the houses shook, and the tiles on the roof of the palace rattled like milk cans in a cart whose horse is frisky.

Who acts: Mexican lapdog, houses, tiles · What happens: bark, shake, rattle, be · To what, where: palace

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 (Mexican lapdog, houses, tiles), 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	_	8 barked	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 barked	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lapdog	det
6	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lapdog	amod
7	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 barked	nsubj
8	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 shook	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 shook	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 houses	det
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shook	nsubj
13	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 barked	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 frisky	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 frisky	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tiles	det
17	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 frisky	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 roof	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roof	det
20	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tiles	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roof	nmod
24	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 palace	acl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 cans	case
26	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cans	compound
27	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rattled	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 cart	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cart	det
30	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cans	nmod
31	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	32 horse	nmod:poss
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cart	obj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 frisky	cop
34	frisky	frisky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 barked	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 barked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bark	participle	the Mexican lapdog		time		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	the houses				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	rattle	participle		the palace not said here		like milk cans in a cart	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the tiles on the roof of the palace			frisky property	tree rules

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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