The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 229

Then all the other children went away, and Tina and Johnnie sat down and cried.

Who acts: other children, Tina · What happens: go away, sit down, cry

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 (other 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 went	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 children	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
10	Tina	Tina	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Johnnie	cc
12	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Tina	conj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	all other children	then	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	Tina and Johnnie			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past	Tina and Johnnie not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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