The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 108
The children's feet made no noise on the ice, and they went on and on in a beautiful white silence.
Who acts: feet · What happens: make, go · To what, where: noise, ice, beautiful white silence
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 children | case |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ice | det |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 on | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 on | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 silence | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 silence | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 silence | amod |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 silence | amod |
| 22 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the children's feet | no noise | the ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||
| 2 | go | past | feet = foot | a beautiful white silence | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in silence=Location |
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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