The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 95
(Keep on howling, Jane!)"
Who acts: you · What happens: keep · To what, where: howling
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 howling | case |
| 4 | howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jane | punct |
| 6 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | vocative |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | howling | Jane vocative | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on howling=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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