The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 78
And the Mexican lapdog barked all the time, till the church bells tinkled, and the chimney of the apple factory rocked again.
Who acts: Mexican lapdog, church bells · What happens: bark, tinkle, rock · To what, where: chimney
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, church bells), 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 barked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lapdog | det |
| 3 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lapdog | amod |
| 4 | lapdog | lapdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barked | nsubj |
| 5 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barked | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tinkled | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 tinkled | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bells | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bells | compound |
| 13 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tinkled | nsubj |
| 14 | tinkled | tinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 barked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rocked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rocked | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chimney | det |
| 18 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rocked | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 factory | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 factory | det |
| 21 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 factory | compound |
| 22 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chimney | nmod |
| 23 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tinkled | conj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 rocked | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 barked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past | the Mexican lapdog | time | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tinkle | participle | the church bells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rock | participle · passive | the chimney of the apple factory | again | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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