The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 21

He was making a goat-shoe for the goat of a very rich lady, who wished to see how the goat liked being shod, and also whether the shoe would come to fivepence or sevenpence before she ordered the whole set.

Who acts: blacksmith, rich lady, goat, shoe · What happens: make, wish, see, like, shoe, come · To what, where: goat shoe, fivepence, whole set

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 (blacksmith, rich lady, goat, shoe), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 making	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 making	aux
3	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shoe	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoe	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 goat	punct
7	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 making	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 goat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goat	det
10	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 making	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 lady	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lady	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 rich	advmod
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lady	amod
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goat	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wished	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 wished	nsubj
18	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lady	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	xcomp
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 liked	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goat	det
23	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 liked	nsubj
24	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 shod	aux:pass
26	shod	shoe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 liked	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 come	cc
29	also	also	ADV	_	34 come	advmod
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	34 come	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shoe	det
32	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 fivepence	case
36	fivepence	fivepence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 sevenpence	cc
38	sevenpence	sevenpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fivepence	conj
39	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 ordered	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ordered	nsubj
41	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 come	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 set	det
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 set	amod
44	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ordered	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	blacksmith	a goat shoe		for the goat of a rich lady	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shoe=Material for goat=Beneficiary
2	wish	past	a rich lady				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	a rich lady not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	like	past	the goat				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	shoe not said to happen	gerund · passive	the goat not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»
6	come	would	the shoe		fivepence or sevenpence		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fivepence=Initial_Location
7	order	past	goat	the whole set			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/21/