The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 71

But the pieces that were left of the griffin were buried under the herb-bed in the palace garden, because it had been so good at housework, and it wasn't its fault that it had been made so badly and put to such poor work as guarding a lady from her lover.

Who acts: garden · What happens: leave, bury, be, not be, make, put · To what, where: pieces, herb bed, housework, fault, garden, lady

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 (garden), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 buried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pieces	det
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buried	nsubj:pass
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 left	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pieces	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 griffin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 griffin	det
9	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 buried	aux:pass
11	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	under	under	ADP	_	16 bed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bed	det
14	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bed	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 herb	punct
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buried	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 garden	compound
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buried	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 good	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 good	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 good	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 good	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 good	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 buried	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 housework	case
29	housework	housework	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 good	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fault	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fault	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fault	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fault	cop
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 fault	advmod
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fault	nmod:poss
36	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 good	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 made	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 made	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 made	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 made	aux:pass
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 fault	advcl
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 badly	advmod
43	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 made	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 put	cc
45	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 made	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 work	case
47	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 work	amod
48	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 work	amod
49	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 put	obl
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 guarding	mark
51	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 put	advcl
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 lady	det
53	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 guarding	obj
54	from	from	ADP	_	56 lover	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 lover	nmod:poss
56	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 guarding	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		the pieces			of the griffin	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of griffin=Destination
2	bury	past · passive		the pieces		the herb bed	in the palace garden	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under bed=Destination
3	is	past · perfect	garden			housework	good property	tree rules
4	not is a	past	garden	garden's fault				tree rules
5	make	past · perfect · passive		garden			badly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
6	put	infinitive					to such poor work	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	guard	gerund			a lady		from dragon's lover	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lady=Beneficiary from lover=Theme

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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