The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 269

And presently he began to feel faint, as people sometimes do when they have been crying, especially if they have not had anything to eat for ten years or so.

Who acts: Dragon, people · What happens: begin, feel, do, cry, not have, eat · To what, where: anything

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 (Dragon, people), 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 began	cc
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feel	mark
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 crying	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crying	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 crying	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 crying	aux
17	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 do	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
19	especially	especially	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 do	conj
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 anything	acl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 years	case
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 so	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	24 had	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Dragon			presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	Dragon not said here			faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	do	present	people			sometimes property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	present · perfect · progressive	people				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not have a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	people	anything		especially property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
6	eat	to-infinitive	people not said here	anything not said here	year		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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