The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 140

It had gold patterns on the brown leather, and gold clasps with turquoises and rubies in the twists of them, and gold corners, so that the leather should not wear out too quickly.

Who acts: Book, leather · What happens: have, not wear out, twist · To what, where: gold patterns, brown leather, twists

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 (Book, leather), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 patterns	compound
4	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 leather	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leather	det
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leather	amod
8	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clasps	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clasps	cc
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clasps	compound
12	clasps	clasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 turquoises	case
14	turquoises	turquoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clasps	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rubies	cc
16	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 turquoises	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 twists	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 twists	det
19	twists	twist	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 turquoises	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 twists	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 corners	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 corners	cc
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 corners	compound
25	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wear	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 wear	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 leather	det
30	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wear	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 wear	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 wear	advmod
33	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 wear	compound:prt
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 quickly	advmod
36	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	33 wear	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Book	gold patterns	the brown leather	gold corners obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient
2	not wear out	should	the leather			quickly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	twist			twists = twist			nom twist «event 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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