The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 179

They sat on committees and stood on guard, and lay in wait for the Dragon, but he stayed up in the hills, and there was nothing more to be done.

Who acts: things, PAGE, nothing · What happens: sit, stand, lay, stay up, be, do · To what, where: committees, guard, wait, hills

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 (things, PAGE, nothing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 committees	case
4	committees	committee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stood	cc
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 guard	case
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 wait	case
13	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 Dragon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Dragon	det
16	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wait	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stayed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 stayed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stayed	nsubj
20	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 stayed	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hills	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hills	det
24	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stayed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 was	nsubj
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 nothing	amod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 done	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 done	aux:pass
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 more	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sit	past	things = thing	committees	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on committee=Location
2	stand	past	things = thing not said here	guard	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location
3	lay	infinitive	things = thing not said here	wait for the Dragon	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wait=Destination
4	stay up	past	PAGE	the hills	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location
5	be	past	nothing	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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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