The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 103

"Yes, but he sent it to be tinned over, for fear of vanity, and he had had all the jewels taken out, and sold them to buy books.

Who acts: death · What happens: send, tin over, have, take out, sell, buy · To what, where: crown, jewels, books, vanity

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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	_	6 sent	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sent	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 tinned	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 tinned	aux:pass
10	tinned	tin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sent	advcl
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 tinned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fear	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 fear	case
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tinned	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 vanity	case
16	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fear	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 had	aux
21	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 tinned	parataxis
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 jewels	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jewels	det
24	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 jewels	acl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 taken	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sold	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sold	cc
29	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sold	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 buy	mark
32	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sold	xcomp
33	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 buy	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send in a quote	past	death	crown		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tin over in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	death not said here		over property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»
3	have in a quote	past · perfect	death	all jewels		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient
4	take out in a quote	participle		all jewels not said here		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sell in a quote	past	death not said here	jewels = jewel		tree rules
6	buy in a quote	to-infinitive	death not said here	books		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
7	fear in a quote			vanity		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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