The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 226

Then, when all the town children brought their bread and milk, Tina emptied it into the wash tub, and when the tub was full Tina knocked at the iron door with the grating in it and said: "May we come in?"

Who acts: town children, bread, tub, Tina, we · What happens: bring, empty, be, knock, say, come in · To what, where: milk, wash tub · 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 (town children, bread, tub, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 brought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 brought	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 children	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 children	compound
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brought	nsubj
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bread	nmod:poss
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 emptied	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 milk	cc
12	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bread	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 emptied	punct
14	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 emptied	nsubj
15	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 emptied	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 tub	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tub	det
19	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tub	compound
20	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 emptied	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knocked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 knocked	cc
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 full	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tub	det
25	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 full	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 full	cop
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 knocked	advcl
28	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 knocked	nsubj
29	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	parataxis
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
32	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 door	amod
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knocked	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 grating	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 grating	det
36	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knocked	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knocked	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 said	cc
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 knocked	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
43	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 come	aux
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 come	nsubj
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 said	ccomp
46	in	in	ADV	_	45 come	advmod
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	all town children			then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	empty	past	children's bread and milk	milk	the wash tub			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into tub=Destination
3	is	past	the tub				full property	tree rules
4	knock	past	Tina				with the grating; in tub; at the iron door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient with grating=Instrument
5	say speech: ask	past	Tina not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come in in a quote	may	we					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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