The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 97

Then the muttering stopped--and there was a silence so deep that Jane was afraid to howl in it.

Who acts: muttering, Jane · What happens: stop, be, howl · To what, where: silence

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 (muttering, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 muttering	det
3	muttering	muttering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 silence	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 silence	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 silence	det
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 deep	advmod
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 silence	amod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 afraid	mark
14	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 afraid	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 afraid	cop
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deep	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 howl	mark
18	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 afraid	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 howl	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the muttering		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	past	the muttering not said here	a silence			tree rules
3	is	past	Jane			afraid property	tree rules
4	howl	to-infinitive	Jane not said here			in muttering	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme

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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