The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 171

The Chancellor and the Prime Minister and the Nurse all came running to see what was the matter.

Who acts: Chancellor · What happens: come, run, see, be · To what, where: matter · 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 (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	2 Chancellor	det
2	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Minister	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Minister	det
5	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	6 Minister	compound
6	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Chancellor	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Nurse	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Nurse	det
9	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chancellor	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 running	xcomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 matter	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 matter	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	the Chancellor and the Prime Minister and the Nurse		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	the Chancellor and the Prime Minister and the Nurse not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	see	to-infinitive	the Chancellor and the Prime Minister and the Nurse not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		the matter	tree rules

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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