The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 121

But they all happened to have engagements for that evening; so they praised John's cleverness, and said they were quite content to leave the matter in his hands.

Who acts: rivets · What happens: happen, have, praise, say, be, leave · To what, where: engagements, cleverness, matter, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rivets), 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	_	4 happened	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	xcomp
7	engagements	engagement	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 evening	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 evening	det
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 engagements	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 praised	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 praised	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 praised	nsubj
14	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cleverness	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 John	case
17	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 praised	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 praised	advcl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 content	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 content	cop
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 content	advmod
24	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 content	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 matter	det
28	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hands	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 leave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	rivets = rivet					tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	rivets = rivet not said here	engagements		for that evening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient
3	praise	past	rivets = rivet	John's cleverness				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleverness=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	rivets = rivet not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	rivets = rivet				content property	tree rules
6	leave	to-infinitive	rivets = rivet not said here	the matter	John's hands			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent matter=Theme in hand=Location

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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