The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 74

The minute Nurse let go for a moment Lionel bolted off without waiting for his clean handkerchief, and in the drawing room there were two very grave-looking gentlemen in red robes with fur, and gold coronets with velvet sticking up out of the middle like the cream in the very expensive jam tarts.

Who acts: minute Nurse, velvet · What happens: let, go, bolt off, wait, look, stick up · To what, where: drawing room, moment Lionel, middle

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 (minute Nurse, velvet), 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	3 Nurse	det
2	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Nurse	compound
3	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 Lionel	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Lionel	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Lionel	compound
9	Lionel	lionel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Lionel	acl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 bolted	compound:prt
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 waiting	mark
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bolted	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 handkerchief	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 handkerchief	nmod:poss
16	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 handkerchief	amod
17	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waiting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 room	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 room	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
22	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 room	compound
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 were	expl
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 room	acl:relcl
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 gentlemen	nummod
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 grave	advmod
28	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gentlemen	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 looking	punct
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 gentlemen	amod
31	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 were	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 robes	case
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 robes	amod
34	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gentlemen	nmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 fur	case
36	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 robes	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 coronets	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 coronets	cc
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 coronets	compound
40	coronets	coronet	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fur	conj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 velvet	case
42	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 coronets	nmod
43	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 velvet	acl
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 sticking	compound:prt
45	out	out	ADP	_	48 middle	case
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 middle	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 middle	det
48	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sticking	obl
49	like	like	ADP	_	51 cream	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 cream	det
51	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sticking	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	57 tarts	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 tarts	det
54	very	very	ADV	_	55 expensive	advmod
55	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 tarts	amod
56	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 tarts	compound
57	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sticking	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	the minute Nurse		the drawing room		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the minute Nurse not said here			for a moment Lionel	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for lionel=Beneficiary
3	bolt off	participle		a moment Lionel not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	gerund				for Lionel's clean handkerchief	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	stick up	gerund	velvet not said here		the middle	like the cream; in the expensive jam tarts	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out middle=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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