The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 120
"Oh, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!" cried Effie, and she hurried back to the taps and turned on everything that seemed wet. "
Who acts: hurrah, Effie · What happens: cry, hurry back, turn on, seem · To what, where: Effie, taps, everything
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 (hurrah, Effie), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 hurrah | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurrah | punct |
| 6 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurrah | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurrah | punct |
| 8 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurrah | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurrah | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurrah | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurried | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hurried | nsubj |
| 16 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 hurried | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 taps | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 taps | det |
| 20 | taps | tap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurried | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 turned | cc |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 turned | compound:prt |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 turned | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seemed | nsubj |
| 26 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 everything | acl:relcl |
| 27 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | hurrah and hurrah | Effie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effie=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hurry back | past | Effie | the taps | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tap=Destination | ||||
| 3 | turn on | past | hurrah and hurrah not said here | everything | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | wet property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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