The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 121

Showery," "Good open weather," "Nice growing weather for the crops," and even "South" and "South-West," because she had heard her father say that those winds brought rain.

Who acts: Showery, father, winds · What happens: grow, hear, say, bring · To what, where: weather, rain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Showery, father, winds), 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	Showery	Showery	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 heard	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Showery	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Showery	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
5	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weather	amod
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weather	amod
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showery	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Nice	punct
11	Nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weather	parataxis
12	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 Nice	xcomp
13	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 growing	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 crops	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crops	det
16	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 growing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Showery	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Showery	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 South	cc
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 South	advmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 South	punct
22	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Showery	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 South	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 South	cc
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 South	punct
26	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Showery	conj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 West	punct
28	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Showery	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Showery	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 heard	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	aux
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	nsubj
37	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	parataxis
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 brought	mark
39	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 winds	det
40	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 brought	nsubj
41	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 say	ccomp
42	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 brought	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	Showery and South and South and West not said here	weather	for the crops	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent weather=Product for crop=Beneficiary
2	hear in a quote	past · perfect	Showery and South and South and West			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Showery's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring in a quote	past	that winds	rain		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=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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