The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 115

The Prime Minister and the Chancellor were there, and when Lionel came in they bowed very low, and were beginning to ask Lionel most politely what on earth he was coming bothering for now--when Lionel cried out: "Oh, what a worldful of books!

Who acts: Prime Minister, Lionel, Chancellor · What happens: be, come in, bow, begin, ask, come · To what, where: Lionel, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prime Minister, Lionel, Chancellor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Minister	det
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	3 Minister	compound
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Chancellor	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Chancellor	det
6	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Minister	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 cried	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bowed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bowed	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bowed	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 came	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bowed	nsubj
16	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	parataxis
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 low	advmod
18	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bowed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beginning	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beginning	cc
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beginning	aux
22	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 bowed	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 beginning	xcomp
25	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obj
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 politely	advmod
27	politely	politely	ADV	_	28 what	advmod
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 coming	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 earth	case
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coming	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 coming	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 coming	aux
33	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 ask	ccomp
34	bothering	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 coming	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 now	case
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 bothering	obl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 cried	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 cried	advmod
39	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 cried	nsubj
40	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 cried	compound:prt
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 what	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 what	punct
44	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	46 what	discourse
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Oh	punct
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 cried	parataxis
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 worldful	det
48	worldful	worldful	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 what	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 books	case
50	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 worldful	nmod
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prime Minister and the Chancellor			there property	tree rules
2	come in	past	Lionel				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bow	past	Chancellor			low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past · progressive	Chancellor not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Chancellor not said here	Lionel			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lionel=Recipient clause=Topic
6	come	past · progressive	Lionel		earth		tree rules
7	bother	gerund	Lionel not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	cry out speech: express	past	Lionel				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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