The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 155

So the mother picked up the baby and took it upstairs and told her husband, and they went to bed happy, for they had caught the dragon and saved the baby.

Who acts: mother, jobs · What happens: pick up, take, tell, go, catch, save · To what, where: baby, sleep, husband, bed, jobs · 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 (mother, jobs), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 picked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obj
11	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	9 took	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 bed	case
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
22	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 caught	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 caught	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 caught	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 caught	aux
27	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 went	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dragon	det
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caught	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saved	cc
31	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 caught	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 baby	det
33	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saved	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the mother	the baby				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic
2	take	past	the mother not said here	sleep			upstairs property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the mother not said here		mother's husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
4	go	past	jobs = job			bed	happy property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	catch	past · perfect · passive		jobs = job				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary dragon=Theme
6	save	past		the baby				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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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