The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 150

Then the Prime Minister snatched the book away from the King and shut it up on the blank page where the bird had been, and put it on a very high shelf.

Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: snatch, shut up, put · To what, where: Book, blank page, high shelf

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 snatched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Minister	det
3	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	4 Minister	compound
4	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 snatched	nsubj
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl:unmarked
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 snatched	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 snatched	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shut	cc
13	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 snatched	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shut	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 shut	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 page	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 page	det
18	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 page	amod
19	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 been	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bird	det
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 been	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 been	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 page	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 shut	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	33 shelf	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shelf	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 high	advmod
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shelf	amod
33	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 snatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch	past	the Prime Minister			then	from the King; away property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from king=Source
2	shut up	infinitive	the Prime Minister not said here	Book	the blank page			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	put	infinitive	the Prime Minister not said here	Book	a high shelf			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shelf=Destination

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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