The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 103

So he got back into his picture and has never come out since: That is why you will never see a Manticora as long as you live, except in a picture-book.

Who acts: King, That, you · What happens: get back, not come out, be, not see, live · To what, where: picture, Manticora

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, That, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 picture	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 picture	nmod:poss
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 got	conj
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	since	since	ADP	_	11 come	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
15	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 why	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 why	cop
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 why	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Manticora	det
23	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 see	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 live	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 live	nsubj
28	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 long	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 book	punct
30	except	except	ADP	_	35 book	case
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 book	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 book	det
33	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 book	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 picture	punct
35	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get back	past	King		King's picture		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into picture=Destination
2	not come out	present · perfect	King not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	That			why property	tree rules
4	not see	future	you	a Manticora		except a picture book; long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manticora=Stimulus
5	live	present	you				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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