The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 74

And Tom began to cry because he was so angry.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: begin, cry, be

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cry	mark
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 angry	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 angry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Tom		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Tom not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Tom	angry 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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