The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 109
But suddenly the silence was shattered and a cry rang out over the snow.
Who acts: cry · What happens: shatter, ring out · To what, where: silence, snow
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 (cry), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 shattered | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 shattered | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 silence | det |
| 4 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shattered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shattered | aux:pass |
| 6 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rang | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cry | det |
| 9 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rang | nsubj |
| 10 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shattered | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 rang | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rang | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shatter | past · passive | the silence | suddenly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ring out | past | a cry | the snow | out property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=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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