The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 2
Then once again the silence was broken to bits by someone calling: "Hey!
Who acts: someone · What happens: break, call · To what, where: silence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 broken | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 again | advmod |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 broken | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 silence | det |
| 5 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 broken | aux:pass |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bits | case |
| 9 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broken | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 someone | case |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 broken | obl |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 someone | acl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 15 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 7 broken | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | someone | the silence | then; again | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to bit=Result | ||
| 2 | call | gerund | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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