The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 105

His wife was asleep, in spite of the baby's cries; and John picked up the baby and took it down and put it between the dragon's front paws.

Who acts: wife, John, baby · What happens: be, pick up, take down, put, spite, cry · To what, where: spite, baby, compliment, front paws, cries

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, John, baby), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spite	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 spite	case
7	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 cries	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 baby	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cries	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 baby	case
12	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spite	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 picked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 picked	cc
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 picked	nsubj
16	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 picked	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 baby	det
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 picked	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 picked	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 took	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	between	between	ADP	_	32 paws	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dragon	det
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 paws	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 dragon	case
31	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 paws	amod
32	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	John's wife		spite of the baby's cries	asleep property	tree rules
2	pick up	past	John	the baby			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic
3	take down	past	John not said here	compliment			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	put	infinitive	John not said here	compliment	the dragon's front paws		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme between paw=Destination
5	spite			the baby's cries			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	cry		the baby				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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