The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 38

Then, too, little things began to be missed.

Who acts: little things · What happens: begin, miss

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 (little things), 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	7 began	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 too	punct
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 missed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 missed	aux:pass
10	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 began	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	little things				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	miss	to-infinitive · passive	little things not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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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