The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 217

So Johnnie said, "Done," and off he went, hand in hand with Tina, and they called on all their little friends and said: "Will you help us to save the town?"

Who acts: Johnnie, people, you, us · What happens: say, do, go, call, help, save · To what, where: hand, us, 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 (Johnnie, people, you, us), 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 said	advmod
2	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Done	punct
6	Done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Done	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Done	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	off	off	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hand	punct
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 Tina	case
18	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj
22	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 friends	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 friends	det:predet
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friends	nmod:poss
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 friends	amod
27	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 called	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct
32	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 help	aux
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 help	nsubj
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 help	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 save	mark
37	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 help	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 town	det
39	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 save	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Johnnie				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	participle					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Johnnie	hand	hand	with Tina; off property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with tina=Beneficiary
4	call	past	people			on people's little friends	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: ask	past	Johnnie not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	help in a quote	future	you	us			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	save in a quote	to-infinitive	us not said here	the town			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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.

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