The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 70

You see, there was a knock at the front door and voices talking downstairs, and Lionel thought it was the man come to see about the gas, which had not been allowed to be lighted since the day when Lionel made a swing by tying his skipping rope to the gas bracket.

Who acts: You, knock, voices, Lionel, gas · What happens: see, be, talk, think, come, not allow · To what, where: gas, swing, skipping rope · 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 (You, knock, voices, Lionel), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knock	det
7	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
10	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 door	amod
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knock	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 voices	cc
13	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 door	conj
14	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 voices	acl
15	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	14 talking	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
18	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	xcomp
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 gas	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gas	det
29	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 allowed	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 allowed	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 allowed	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 allowed	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 allowed	aux:pass
35	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 gas	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	38 lighted	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 lighted	aux:pass
38	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 allowed	xcomp
39	since	since	ADP	_	41 day	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 day	det
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lighted	obl
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 made	advmod
43	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 made	nsubj
44	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lighted	advcl
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 swing	det
46	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 made	obj
47	by	by	SCONJ	_	48 tying	mark
48	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 made	advcl
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 rope	nmod:poss
50	skipping	skipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 rope	compound
51	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 tying	obj
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 bracket	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 bracket	det
54	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 bracket	compound
55	bracket	bracket	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 tying	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	a knock at the front door and voices		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	gerund	voices not said here				downstairs property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	Lionel					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	come	past	knock					tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	knock not said here				about the gas	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	not allow	past · perfect · passive		the gas				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8	light not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the gas not said here			day		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»
9	make	past	Lionel	a swing				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swing=Product
10	tie	gerund	Lionel not said here	Lionel's skipping rope			to the gas bracket	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to bracket=Co-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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