The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 50

All the hippopotamuses had collars with their name and address on, but when the farmers called at the palace to complain of the injury to their standing crops, the Prince always said it served them right for leaving their crops standing about in people's way, and he never paid anything at all.

Who acts: hippopotamuses, farmers, Prince, injury, crops · What happens: have on, call, complain, say, serve, leave · To what, where: collars, standing crops, hippopotamuses, crops, anything, all · 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 (hippopotamuses, farmers, Prince, injury), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hippopotamuses	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hippopotamuses	det
3	hippopotamuses	hippopotamus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 name	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 address	cc
10	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	4 had	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 called	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 farmers	det
16	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 palace	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 complain	mark
22	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 called	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 injury	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 injury	det
25	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 complain	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 crops	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 crops	nmod:poss
28	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crops	compound
29	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 complain	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Prince	det
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 said	advmod
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crops	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 served	nsubj
36	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 said	ccomp
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 served	obj
38	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 served	xcomp
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 leaving	mark
40	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 right	advcl
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 crops	nmod:poss
42	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 leaving	obj
43	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 crops	acl
44	about	about	ADP	_	48 way	case
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 way	case
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 way	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 people	case
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 standing	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 paid	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 paid	cc
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 paid	nsubj
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 paid	advmod
53	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
54	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 paid	obj
55	at	at	ADP	_	56 all	case
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 anything	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have on	past	all hippopotamuses	collars			with hippopotamuses's name and address	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient
2	call	participle	the farmers				at the palace	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at palace=Stimulus
3	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	the farmers not said here		hippopotamuses's standing crops		of the injury	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to crop=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	the Prince				always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	serve	past	injury	hippopotamuses = hippopotamus			right property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute
6	leave	gerund	injury not said here	hippopotamuses's crops				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme
7	stand	gerund	hippopotamuses's crops not said here				about people's way	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about way=Location
8	not pay	past	Prince	anything		all		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Asset
9	name		hippopotamuses = hippopotamus					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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