The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 102
So then they turned on the hail--only half on, for fear of breaking people's windows--and after a while there were no more dragons to be seen moving.
Who acts: dragons, fear · What happens: turn, break, see, move · To what, where: hail, windows
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragons, fear), 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 | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hail | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hail | det |
| 7 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 on | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 on | advmod |
| 10 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 on | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 hail | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fear | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fear | case |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 breaking | mark |
| 16 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fear | acl |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 windows | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 people | case |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 breaking | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 while | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 while | cc |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 while | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 while | det |
| 24 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 were | expl |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 while | acl:relcl |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 29 dragons | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 dragons | amod |
| 29 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 were | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 seen | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 seen | aux:pass |
| 32 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 dragons | acl |
| 33 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 seen | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | dragons = dragon | the hail | then; while | for fear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on hail=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | break | gerund | fear not said here | people's windows | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | dragons = dragon not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | move | gerund | dragons = dragon not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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