The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 228
So they went in, and with the help of nine other children they lifted the washing tub in and set it down by the dragon.
Who acts: children · What happens: go in, lift, set down, help · To what, where: washing tub, tub, nine other children
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), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lifted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lifted | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 help | det |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 children | case |
| 11 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 children | nummod |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 children | amod |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 help | nmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lifted | nsubj |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tub | det |
| 17 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tub | compound |
| 18 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 lifted | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lifted | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 dragon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | children = child | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | children = child | the washing tub | with the help of nine other children | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Theme | |||
| 3 | set down | infinitive | children = child not said here | tub | by the dragon | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by dragon=Destination | |||
| 4 | help | nine other children | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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