The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 48

And the great sea knew all the other stories of the Princes who had come from very far, and had seen the whirlpools, and had shaken their wise young heads and said: "'Bout ship!" and gone discreetly home to their nice, safe, comfortable kingdoms.

Who acts: great sea, Princes · What happens: know, come, see, shake, say, go · To what, where: other stories, whirlpools, wise young heads, home, nice comfortable kingdoms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (great sea, Princes), 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	_	5 knew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sea	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stories	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stories	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stories	amod
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knew	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Princes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princes	det
12	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 stories	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 come	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 Princes	acl:relcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 far	case
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seen	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 knew	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 whirlpools	det
24	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seen	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shaken	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shaken	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shaken	aux
28	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 knew	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heads	nmod:poss
30	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heads	amod
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heads	amod
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shaken	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 ship	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 ship	punct
37	'	's	PART	_	39 ship	punct
38	Bout	Bout	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 ship	compound
39	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	ccomp
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 ship	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 ship	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gone	cc
43	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 said	conj
44	discreetly	discreetly	ADV	_	45 home	advmod
45	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gone	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	53 kingdoms	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 kingdoms	nmod:poss
48	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 kingdoms	amod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 safe	punct
50	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 nice	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 kingdoms	punct
52	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 kingdoms	amod
53	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gone	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	the great sea	all other stories of the Princes		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	come	past · perfect	the Princes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial_Location
3	see	past · perfect	the great sea not said here	the whirlpools		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whirlpool=Stimulus
4	shake	past · perfect	the great sea not said here	Whirlpools's wise young heads		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the great sea not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	go	participle	the great sea not said here	home	Whirlpools's nice comfortable kingdoms	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location

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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