The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 146

Just before the door stood fifty pairs of copper shoes, and no one could have looked at them for a moment without seeing what sort of feet they were made for, for each shoe had five holes in it for the drakling's five claws.

Who acts: door, shoe · What happens: stand, look, see, make, have, sort · To what, where: fifty pairs, one, sort, doors, five holes, hole

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, shoe), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 stood	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pairs	nummod
7	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 shoes	case
9	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoes	compound
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pairs	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj:pass
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 looked	aux
17	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stood	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 seeing	mark
24	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 looked	advcl
25	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	26 sort	det
26	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seeing	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 feet	case
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sort	nmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 feet	acl:relcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	31 made	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 shoe	det
36	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
38	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 holes	nummod
39	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	obl
42	for	for	ADP	_	47 claws	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 drakling	det
44	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 claws	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 drakling	case
46	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 claws	nummod
47	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the door	fifty pairs of copper shoes				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus
2	look	could · perfect · passive		no one		moment	at doors = door	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	see	gerund		what sort of feet				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
4	make	past · passive		doors = door				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	have	past	each shoe	five holes	hole		for the drakling's five claws	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
6	sort			feet				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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