The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 268

When he thought how he had been tricked, the poor captive dragon began to weep--and the large tears fell down over his rusty plates.

Who acts: Johnnie, poor captive dragon, large tears · What happens: think, trick, begin, weep, fall down · To what, where: Johnnie, rusty plates · 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 (Johnnie, poor captive dragon, large tears), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 thought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tricked	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tricked	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tricked	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tricked	aux:pass
8	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dragon	amod
12	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dragon	amod
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tricked	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 weep	mark
16	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tears	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tears	amod
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	over	over	ADP	_	27 plates	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 plates	nmod:poss
26	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 plates	amod
27	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fell	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Johnnie				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	trick	past · perfect · passive		Johnnie			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	begin	past	the poor captive dragon				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	weep	to-infinitive	the poor captive dragon not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fall down	past	the large tears		Johnnie's rusty plates	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over plate=Location

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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