The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 8
The children could hear the rattle of their wings as they flew.
Who acts: children, wings · What happens: hear, fly, rattle · To what, where: rattle
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 (children, wings), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rattle | det |
| 6 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wings | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rattle | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 flew | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | the children | the rattle of children's wings | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rattle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | children = child | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rattle | children's wings | nom rattle «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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