The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 65

You had only to throw them out into a field if you wanted it plowed.

Who acts: You, field · What happens: have, throw out, want, plow · To what, where: things, field

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 (You, field), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 throw	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 throw	mark
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 throw	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 throw	compound:prt
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 wanted	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 throw	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	obj
15	plowed	plow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 wanted	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	You			tree rules
2	throw out	to-infinitive	You not said here	things = thing	into a field result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into field=Result
3	want a condition, not said to happen	past	you	field		tree rules
4	plow not said to happen	participle	field not said here			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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