The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 190

So they went in and talked to him, and told him what the weather was like outside, and what there was in the papers, and at last Johnnie said: "There's a lame giant in the town.

Who acts: worlds, weather, lame giant · What happens: go in, talk, tell, be, say · To what, where: Dragon, last Johnnie, town · 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 (worlds, weather, lame giant), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 talked	cc
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 told	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 weather	det
15	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 outside	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 outside	cop
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 outside	case
18	outside	outside	ADV	_	13 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 what	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 told	parataxis
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 papers	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 papers	det
26	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 was	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 Johnnie	case
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Johnnie	amod
31	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 's	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 's	punct
35	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 's	expl
36	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 said	ccomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 giant	det
38	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 giant	amod
39	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 's	nsubj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 town	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 town	det
42	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 's	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	past	worlds = world				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	past	worlds = world not said here	Dragon			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	worlds = world not said here	Dragon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic
4	is	past	the weather			outside property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	worlds = world not said here		last Johnnie		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be in a quote	present	a lame giant		the town; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=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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