The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 95

And it sounded so funny to hear Mother say, when they were going to bed: "Good night, my darlings, sleep sound all day, and don't get up too soon.

Who acts: change, Mother, lamps · What happens: sound, hear, say, go, not get up · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, Mother, lamps), 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 sounded	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sounded	nsubj
3	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 funny	advmod
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sounded	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 funny	advcl
8	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 going	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 going	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 say	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 bed	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 night	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 night	punct
19	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 night	amod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 darlings	punct
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 darlings	nmod:poss
23	darlings	darling	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 night	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sound	punct
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sound	compound
26	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 night	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sound	nmod:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 get	cc
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 get	advmod
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sounded	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 get	compound:prt
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 soon	advmod
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 get	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	change			funny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	hear	to-infinitive	change not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	Mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past · progressive	lamps = lamp	bed	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	not get up in a quote	infinitive · do-support	change not said here			soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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