The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 265

And then they went away and told the people what they had done, and Johnnie was made mayor, and had a glorious feast exactly as he had said he would--with nothing in it but sweet things.

Who acts: basins, Johnnie · What happens: go away, tell, do, make, have, say · To what, where: people, Johnnie, glorious feast · 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 (basins, Johnnie), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 done	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 done	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 people	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	ccomp
19	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 feast	det
24	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feast	amod
25	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	aux
30	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 had	advcl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 would	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 nothing	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 nothing	case
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 would	appos
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 nothing	nmod
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 things	cc
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 things	amod
40	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 nothing	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	basins = basin			then	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	basins = basin not said here		the people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	basins = basin	the people				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	make	past · passive		Johnnie				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mayor=Product
5	have	past	basins = basin not said here	a glorious feast				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Johnnie				exactly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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