The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 223

All the children promised, and next morning Tina and Johnnie rolled their big washing tub down the winding stair.

Who acts: children, Tina · What happens: promise, roll, wind · To what, where: big washing tub, winding stair

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 (children, Tina), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 children	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rolled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rolled	cc
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	obl:unmarked
9	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Johnnie	cc
11	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tina	conj
12	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	parataxis
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tub	nmod:poss
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tub	amod
15	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tub	compound
16	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	20 stair	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stair	det
19	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stair	amod
20	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	all children				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	roll	past	Tina and Johnnie	children's big washing tub	the winding stair	morning	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tub=Theme down stair=Trajectory
3	wind	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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