The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 227

Here the door of the room opened, and the oldest of the five and seventy pigs came in.

Who acts: door, oldest · What happens: open, come in

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 (door, oldest), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 opened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 door	nmod
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oldest	det
11	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 came	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 pigs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pigs	det
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 pigs	nummod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seventy	cc
16	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 five	conj
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 oldest	nmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	conj
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the door of the room			here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in	past	the oldest of the five pigs						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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