The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 273
So Johnnie arranged that people should go around with carts every day to collect the children's bread and milk for the dragon.
Who acts: Johnnie, people · What happens: arrange, go around, collect · To what, where: bread
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 arranged | advmod |
| 2 | Johnnie | Johnnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arranged | nsubj |
| 3 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arranged | ccomp |
| 8 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 carts | case |
| 10 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 collect | mark |
| 14 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bread | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 children | case |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collect | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 milk | cc |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bread | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 dragon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dragon | det |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collect | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past | Johnnie | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go around | should | people | day | with carts; around property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with cart=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | people not said here | the children's bread and milk | for the dragon | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
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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