The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 42

When the griffin fell asleep that afternoon at teatime, Nigel went softly behind him and trod on his tail, and at the same time the Princess cried: "Look out!

Who acts: griffin, Nigel, Princess · What happens: fall, go, tread, cry, look out · To what, where: teatime, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, Nigel, Princess), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 griffin	det
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 afternoon	det
7	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 teatime	case
9	teatime	teatime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
11	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	softly	softly	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trod	cc
17	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 tail	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tail	nmod:poss
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trod	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cried	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cried	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cried	nsubj
29	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
32	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cried	advcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 Look	compound:prt
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the griffin	teatime	afternoon	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at teatime=Location
2	go	past	Nigel			behind griffin; softly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
3	tread	past	Nigel not said here	griffin's tail			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory
4	cry speech: express	past	the Princess		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look out in a quote	infinitive	the Princess not said here				vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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