The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 81
"And what are those fires for?" bellowed George--for Jane was crying louder and louder.
Who acts: fires, Jane · What happens: be, bellow, cry · To what, where: fires, George · 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 (fires, Jane), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bellowed | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fires | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 fires | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fires | cop |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 fires | det |
| 6 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bellowed | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fires | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fires | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fires | punct |
| 10 | bellowed | bellow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bellowed | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 crying | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 crying | mark |
| 14 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 crying | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crying | aux |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 bellowed | advcl |
| 17 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 crying | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 louder | cc |
| 19 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 louder | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bellowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that fires | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bellow | past | that fires | George | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent george=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | Jane | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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