The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 215

But the people who were listening at the door interrupted, and said that if Johnnie could fasten up the dragon again they would turn out the mayor and let Johnnie be mayor in his place.

Who acts: people, Johnnie · What happens: listen, interrupt, say, fasten up, turn out, let · To what, where: dragon, mayor, place, Johnnie mayor · 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 (people, Johnnie), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 interrupted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 interrupted	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 listening	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listening	aux
6	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 people	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listening	obl
10	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 interrupted	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 fasten	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 fasten	mark
16	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fasten	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fasten	aux
18	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 turn	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 fasten	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dragon	det
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fasten	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	25 turn	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turn	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 turn	aux
25	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 turn	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mayor	det
28	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turn	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 turn	conj
31	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 mayor	compound
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 mayor	cop
33	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 let	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 place	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 place	nmod:poss
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 let	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past · progressive	the people				at the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
2	interrupt	past	the people					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the people not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fasten up a condition, not said to happen	could	Johnnie	the dragon				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
5	turn out	would	people	the mayor		again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mayor=Theme
6	let	infinitive	people not said here		Dragon's place			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	is a	infinitive		Johnnie mayor				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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