The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 137

And she had scratched on it with the pin of her pearl brooch, and it had turned brown where she had scratched it, as magnolia leaves will do.

Who acts: Princess, it, magnolia leaves · What happens: scratch, turn, do · To what, where: leaf

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 (Princess, it, magnolia leaves), 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	_	4 scratched	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scratched	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scratched	aux
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scratched	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 pin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pin	det
9	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scratched	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 brooch	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brooch	nmod:poss
12	pearl	pearl	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brooch	amod
13	brooch	brooch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pin	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	aux
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 scratched	conj
19	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 turned	xcomp
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 scratched	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 scratched	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 scratched	aux
23	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 turned	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 scratched	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 do	mark
27	magnolia	magnolia	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leaves	compound
28	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 do	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 scratched	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scratched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scratch	past · perfect	Princess		leaf	with the pin of Princess's pearl brooch	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with pin=Instrument
2	turn	past · perfect	it			brown property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	scratch	past · perfect	Princess	leaf			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	do	future	magnolia leaves				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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