The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 144

They enjoyed themselves very much, but by-and-by the copper treasury began to get warmer and warmer, and suddenly the junior secretary cried out, "Look at the bottle!"

Who acts: woods, junior secretary · What happens: enjoy, begin, get, cry out, look · To what, where: woods · Speech: someone speaks here

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, junior 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 enjoyed	nsubj
2	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 enjoyed	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 enjoyed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	15 treasury	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 by	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 by	cc
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 by	punct
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 treasury	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 treasury	det
14	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 treasury	compound
15	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	obl
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 enjoyed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 get	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 warmer	cc
21	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 warmer	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cried	cc
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	28 cried	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 secretary	det
26	junior	junior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 secretary	amod
27	secretary	secretary	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cried	nsubj
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 enjoyed	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 cried	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
32	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cried	ccomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 bottle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bottle	det
35	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Look	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	woods = wood	woods = wood		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
2	begin	past	woods = wood not said here		by the copper treasury	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	woods = wood not said here		warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	cry out speech: express	past	the junior secretary		suddenly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	look in a quote	infinitive			at the bottle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bottle=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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