The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 13

And without another word he went off to his laboratory and worked all night, boiling different-colored things in crucibles, and copying charms in curious twisted letters from old brown books with mold stains on their yellowy pages.

Who acts: King, stains · What happens: go off, work, boil, color, copy, page · To what, where: colored things, charms, curious twisted letters

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, stains), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
2	without	without	ADP	_	4 word	case
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 laboratory	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 laboratory	nmod:poss
10	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 worked	cc
12	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worked	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boiling	punct
16	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 worked	advcl
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 colored	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 different	punct
19	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boiling	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 crucibles	case
22	crucibles	crucible	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 things	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 copying	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 copying	cc
25	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
26	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 copying	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 letters	case
28	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 letters	amod
29	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 letters	amod
30	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 copying	obl
31	from	from	ADP	_	34 books	case
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 books	amod
33	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 books	amod
34	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 letters	nmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 stains	case
36	mold	mold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stains	compound
37	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 books	nmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 pages	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 pages	nmod:poss
40	yellowy	yellowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 pages	amod
41	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 copying	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	King				without another word; to King's laboratory	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	work	past	King not said here			night		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	boil	gerund	King not said here	colored things			in crucibles	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thing=Patient in crucible=Instrument
4	color	participle						vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	copy	gerund	King not said here	charms	curious twisted letters from old brown books with mold stains		on stains's yellowy pages	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent charm=Theme in letter=Destination
6	page		stains = stain					nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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