The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 108

Nurse was there, and tea was ready: seedy cake and plummy cake, and jam and hot buttered toast, and the prettiest china with red and gold and blue flowers on it, and real tea, and as many cups of it as you liked.

Who acts: Nurse, tea, you · What happens: be, butter, like

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 (Nurse, tea, 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	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 there	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 there	cop
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 ready	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ready	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ready	cc
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ready	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ready	cop
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 cake	punct
10	seedy	seedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cake	amod
11	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ready	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cake	cc
13	plummy	plummy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cake	amod
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cake	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 jam	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 jam	cc
17	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cake	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 toast	cc
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 toast	amod
20	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 toast	amod
21	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jam	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 china	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 china	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 china	det
25	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 china	amod
26	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jam	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	33 flowers	case
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flowers	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gold	cc
30	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 red	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 blue	cc
32	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 red	conj
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 china	nmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 flowers	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tea	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tea	cc
38	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tea	amod
39	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jam	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 cups	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 cups	cc
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 many	advmod
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 cups	amod
44	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 jam	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 cups	nmod
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 liked	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 liked	nsubj
49	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 cups	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nurse	there property	tree rules
2	is	past	tea	seedy cake and plummy cake and jam and hot buttered toast and the prettiest china with red flowers on Minister and real tea and many cups of Minister obl; ready property	tree rules
3	butter	participle			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	like	past	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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