The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 54

When they had all explained everything over and over to each other as many times as was good for them, the witch said: "Well, but what about the whirlpools?"

Who acts: witch · What happens: explain, be, say · To what, where: legs · 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 (witch), 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	SCONJ	_	5 explained	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 explained	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 explained	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 explained	advmod
5	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 good	advcl
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 explained	obj
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 explained	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 over	cc
9	over	over	ADV	_	7 over	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	15 times	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 times	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 times	amod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 times	amod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 explained	obl
16	as	as	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 good	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 witch	det
23	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	parataxis
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
27	Well	well	INTJ	_	30 what	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Well	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 what	cc
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 said	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 whirlpools	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 whirlpools	det
33	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 what	nmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		legs = leg	time	all, over property	tree rules
2	is	past				for legs = leg; good property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the witch			about the whirlpools	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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