The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 59

And off he went, and in a few minutes he came back with a great armful of sticks from the pine trees outside, and with these and a lesson book or two that he had forgotten to lose before, and which, quite by an oversight, were safe in his pocket, he lit a fire all around the cockatrice.

Who acts: fire · What happens: go, come back, forget, not lose, be, light · To what, where: lesson book, pocket, fire

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 (fire), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	off	off	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minutes	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minutes	amod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 armful	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 armful	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 armful	amod
17	armful	armful	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 sticks	case
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 armful	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
22	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sticks	nmod
24	outside	outside	ADV	_	23 trees	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 book	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 book	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	32 book	case
28	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 book	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 book	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 book	det
31	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 book	compound
32	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 two	cc
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 book	conj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 forgotten	nsubj:pass
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 forgotten	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 forgotten	aux
38	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 book	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 lose	mark
40	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 forgotten	xcomp
41	before	before	ADV	_	40 lose	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 safe	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 safe	cc
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 safe	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 oversight	punct
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	49 oversight	advmod
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 oversight	case
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 oversight	det
49	oversight	oversight	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 safe	nsubj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 oversight	punct
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 safe	cop
52	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 pocket	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 pocket	nmod:poss
55	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 safe	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lit	punct
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 lit	nsubj
58	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 fire	det
60	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 lit	obj
61	all	all	ADV	_	64 cockatrice	advmod
62	around	around	ADP	_	64 cockatrice	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 cockatrice	det
64	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 lit	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	fire				with a lesson book; off property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with book=Beneficiary
2	come back	past	fire			minute	with a great armful of sticks from the pine trees	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forget	past · perfect · passive		a lesson book				tree rules
4	not lose	to-infinitive					before property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			fire's pocket		safe property	tree rules
6	light	past	fire	a fire			around the cockatrice	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

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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