The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 19

So whenever she had nothing to do she used to sit and cry, because she was tired out with work and worry.

Who acts: mother · What happens: have, use, sit, cry, be · To what, where: nothing

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), 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 had	advmod
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 had	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 used	aux
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sit	mark
11	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cry	cc
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sit	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tired	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 tired	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tired	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tired	cop
18	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sit	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 tired	compound:prt
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 work	case
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tired	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 worry	cc
23	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 work	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	mother	nothing	whenever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	use	infinitive · do-support	mother			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sit	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	infinitive	mother not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	mother		with work and worry; tired 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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