The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 109
Suddenly a voice cried: "Run!" and there was Tom, and he had brought the Zoological guinea pig and a pair of Belgian hares with him. "
Who acts: voice, Tom · What happens: cry, be, bring · To what, where: Run, Zoological guinea pig
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, Tom), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 cried | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
| 7 | Run | Run | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 13 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 cried | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pig | det |
| 20 | Zoological | Zoological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pig | compound |
| 21 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pig | compound |
| 22 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pair | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pair | det |
| 25 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pig | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hares | case |
| 27 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hares | amod |
| 28 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pair | nmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hares | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a voice | Run | suddenly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Topic | |||
| 2 | be | past | Tom | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect | Tom | the Zoological guinea pig and a pair of Belgian hares with voice | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pig=Destination |
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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