The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 143

They gave him the key, and when everyone in the town had gone back to bed he let in some of the junior secretaries from other Government departments, and they had a jolly game of hide-and-seek among the sacks of gold, and played marbles with the diamonds and rubies and pearls in the big ivory chests.

Who acts: woods, everyone, secretary · What happens: give, go back, let in, have, seek, play · To what, where: key, secretary, some, jolly game, sacks, marbles

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, everyone, secretary), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 key	det
5	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 gone	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	nmod
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 gave	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	17 bed	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	19 let	compound:prt
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 let	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 secretaries	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 secretaries	det
24	junior	junior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 secretaries	amod
25	secretaries	secretary	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 some	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 departments	case
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 departments	amod
28	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 departments	compound
29	departments	department	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 secretaries	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 game	det
35	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 game	amod
36	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 hide	case
38	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 game	nmod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 seek	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 seek	cc
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 and	punct
42	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 hide	conj
43	among	among	ADP	_	45 sacks	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sacks	det
45	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 seek	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 gold	case
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sacks	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 played	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 played	cc
50	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
51	marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 played	obj
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 diamonds	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 diamonds	det
54	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 played	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 rubies	cc
56	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 diamonds	conj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 pearls	cc
58	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 diamonds	conj
59	in	in	ADP	_	63 chests	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 chests	det
61	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 chests	amod
62	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 chests	compound
63	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 played	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	woods = wood	the key	secretary			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient key=Theme
2	go back	past · perfect	everyone				to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
3	let in	past	secretary	some				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
4	have	past	woods = wood	a jolly game of hide				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient
5	seek	infinitive	woods = wood not said here			the sacks of gold		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among sack=Location
6	play	past	woods = wood not said here	marbles		the big ivory chests	with the diamonds and rubies and pearls	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent marble=Theme with diamond=Co-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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