The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 98

But it was a brown silence, and she had liked the white silence better.

Who acts: muttering, Jane · What happens: be, like · To what, where: brown silence, white 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 silence	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 silence	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silence	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 silence	det
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silence	amod
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 liked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 liked	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 liked	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 liked	aux
11	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 silence	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 silence	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 silence	amod
14	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 liked	obj
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 silence	amod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 silence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	muttering	a brown silence					tree rules
2	like	past · perfect	Jane	the white silence					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot silence=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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