The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 44
So when his barking suddenly ceased it woke everybody up--and they all went out to see what was the matter.
Who acts: barking, people · What happens: cease, wake up, go out, see, be · To what, where: everybody, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (barking, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 ceased | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 ceased | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 barking | nmod:poss |
| 4 | barking | barking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceased | nsubj |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 ceased | advmod |
| 6 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 woke | nsubj |
| 8 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceased | conj |
| 9 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 woke | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 woke | advmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceased | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 matter | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 matter | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | Frederick's barking | suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wake up | past | barking | everybody | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | people | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the matter | 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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