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The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 102

Of course he knew his way onto his own page, so there was no danger of his opening the book at the wrong page and letting out a Dragon or anything.

Who acts: King, danger · What happens: know, be, open, let out, page · To what, where: way, own page, book, wrong page, Dragon

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, danger), 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

caseoblnsubjnmod:possobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctadvmodexplparataxisdetnsubjmarknsubjacldetobjcasedetamodoblccconjcompound:prtdetobjccconjpunctrootOfADPcourseNOUNhePRONknewVERBhisPRONwayNOUNontoADPhisPRONownADJpageNOUN,PUNCTsoADVtherePRONwasVERBnoDETdangerNOUNofSCONJhisPRONopeningVERBtheDETbookNOUNatADPtheDETwrongADJpageNOUNandCCONJlettingVERBoutADPaDETDragonPROPNorCCONJanythingPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OfofADP_2 coursecase
2coursecourseNOUNNumber=Sing4 knewobl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 knewnsubj
4knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 waynmod:poss
6waywayNOUNNumber=Sing4 knewobj
7ontoontoADP_10 pagecase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 pagenmod:poss
9ownownADJDegree=Pos10 pageamod
10pagepageNOUNNumber=Sing4 knewobl
11,,PUNCT_14 waspunct
12sosoADV_14 wasadvmod
13theretherePRONPronType=Dem14 wasexpl
14wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 knewparataxis
15nonoDETPronType=Neg16 dangerdet
16dangerdangerNOUNNumber=Sing14 wasnsubj
17ofofSCONJ_19 openingmark
18hishisPRONGender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 openingnsubj
19openingopenVERBVerbForm=Ger16 dangeracl
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 bookdet
21bookbookNOUNNumber=Sing19 openingobj
22atatADP_25 pagecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 pagedet
24wrongwrongADJDegree=Pos25 pageamod
25pagepageNOUNNumber=Sing19 openingobl
26andandCCONJ_27 lettingcc
27lettingletVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 openingconj
28outoutADP_27 lettingcompound:prt
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 Dragondet
30DragonDragonPROPNNumber=Sing27 lettingobj
31ororCCONJ_32 anythingcc
32anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind30 Dragonconj
33..PUNCT_4 knewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpastKingKing's wayKing's own pageof coursevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2bepastno dangertherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3opengerundKingthe bookthe wrong pagevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme at page=Location
4let outgerundKing not said herea Dragonvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme
5pageKingnom page «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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