The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 225

Of course, he could not have done this if the town had been in its old place by the river in the middle of the plain, but it had taken root on the hillside just where the dragon left it.

Who acts: Germany, town, dragon · What happens: not do, be, take, leave · To what, where: this, old place, it, hillside, root

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 (Germany, town, dragon), 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	Of	of	SCONJ	_	8 done	mark
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Of	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 done	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 done	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 place	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 place	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 place	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 place	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 place	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 place	nmod:poss
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 place	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 river	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 plain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 plain	det
27	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 middle	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 taken	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 taken	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 taken	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 taken	aux
32	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 done	conj
33	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 taken	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 hillside	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hillside	det
36	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 taken	obl
37	just	just	ADV	_	38 where	advmod
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 left	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dragon	det
40	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 left	nsubj
41	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hillside	acl:relcl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 left	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do	could · perfect	Germany	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the town		town's old place	by the river in the middle of the plain	tree rules
3	take	past · perfect · passive		it	the hillside		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme root=Destination
4	leave	past	the dragon	root			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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