The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 41

One of them had a stone crown on its head and a stone scepter in its hand; but the other held a stone tablet with words on it, which the griffin and the dragon could not read, though they had both had a very good education.

Who acts: One, other, griffin, powers, both · What happens: have, hold, griffin, not read · To what, where: stone crown, head, stone tablet, good education

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 (One, other, griffin, powers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crown	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crown	compound
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scepter	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 scepter	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scepter	compound
14	scepter	scepter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scepter	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 held	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 held	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tablet	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tablet	compound
25	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 held	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 words	case
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 held	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 words	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 griffin	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 griffin	nsubj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 griffin	det
33	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 read	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dragon	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dragon	det
36	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 griffin	conj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 read	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 read	advmod
39	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 words	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
41	though	though	SCONJ	_	43 had	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 held	conj
44	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 had	ccomp
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 education	det
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 good	advmod
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 education	amod
49	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	One of powers	a stone crown	crown's head and a stone scepter in crown's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient
2	hold	past	the other	a stone tablet		with words on crown	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme
3	griffin						tree rules
4	not read	could	the griffin and the dragon				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	powers = power				tree rules
6	have	past	both	a good education			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=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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