The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 156

And next day John went down and explained carefully to the dragon exactly how matters stood, and he got an iron gate with a grating to it and set it up at the foot of the steps, and the dragon mewed furiously for days and days, but when he found it was no good he was quiet.

Who acts: John, matters, dragon, matter · What happens: go down, explain, stand, get, set up, mew · To what, where: dragon, iron gate, matter, foot · 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 (John, matters, dragon, matter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 explained	cc
8	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	8 explained	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 dragon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 explained	obl
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	16 stood	advmod
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 stood	advmod
15	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 explained	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stood	parataxis
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gate	det
22	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gate	compound
23	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 grating	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 grating	det
26	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
30	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 got	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 set	compound:prt
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 foot	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 foot	det
35	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 set	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 steps	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 steps	det
38	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 foot	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 mewed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 mewed	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 dragon	det
42	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mewed	nsubj
43	mewed	mew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stood	conj
44	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	43 mewed	advmod
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 days	case
46	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 mewed	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 days	cc
48	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 days	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 quiet	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 quiet	cc
51	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 found	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	nsubj
53	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 quiet	advcl
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 good	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 good	cop
56	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	57 good	det
57	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 found	ccomp
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 quiet	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 quiet	cop
60	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	John				day	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	explain speech: assert	past	John not said here		the dragon			carefully property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to dragon=Recipient
3	stand	past	matters					exactly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	past	John	a iron gate	matter			with a grating	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gate=Stimulus
5	set up	infinitive	John not said here	matter		the foot of the steps			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination
6	mew	past	the dragon				day	furiously property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	find	past	Dragon						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	matter					good property	tree rules
9	is	past	Dragon					quiet property	tree rules

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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