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The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 107

So the beautiful, white-winged Hippogriff showed him the way in, and there he stayed till the King had him taken out for his great-great-great-great-grandchildren to play with.

Who acts: beautiful winged Hippogriff, Horse, King · What happens: wing, show, stay, have, take out, play · To what, where: way, Horse

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 (beautiful winged Hippogriff, Horse, King), 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

advmoddetamodpunctcompoundpunctamodnsubjiobjdetobjadvmodpunctccexplnsubjconjmarkdetnsubjadvclobjxcompcompound:prtcasenmod:possamodpunctamodpunctamodpunctamodpunctoblmarkacloblpunctrootSoADVtheDETbeautifulADJ,PUNCTwhiteADJ-PUNCTwingedVERBHippogriffPROPNshowedVERBhimPRONtheDETwayNOUNinADV,PUNCTandCCONJtherePRONhePRONstayedVERBtillSCONJtheDETKingPROPNhadVERBhimPRONtakenVERBoutADPforADPhisPRONgreatADJ-PUNCTgreatADJ-PUNCTgreatADJ-PUNCTgreatADJ-PUNCTgrandchildrenNOUNtoPARTplayVERBwithADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_9 showedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Hippogriffdet
3beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos8 Hippogriffamod
4,,PUNCT_3 beautifulpunct
5whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos7 wingedcompound
6--PUNCT_5 whitepunct
7wingedwingVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 Hippogriffamod
8HippogriffHippogriffPROPNNumber=Sing9 showednsubj
9showedshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 showediobj
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 waydet
12waywayNOUNNumber=Sing9 showedobj
13ininADV_12 wayadvmod
14,,PUNCT_18 stayedpunct
15andandCCONJ_18 stayedcc
16theretherePRONPronType=Dem18 stayedexpl
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 stayednsubj
18stayedstayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 showedconj
19tilltillSCONJ_22 hadmark
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Kingdet
21KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing22 hadnsubj
22hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 stayedadvcl
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 hadobj
24takentakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 hadxcomp
25outoutADP_24 takencompound:prt
26forforADP_36 grandchildrencase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 grandchildrennmod:poss
28greatgreatADJDegree=Pos36 grandchildrenamod
29--PUNCT_28 greatpunct
30greatgreatADJDegree=Pos36 grandchildrenamod
31--PUNCT_30 greatpunct
32greatgreatADJDegree=Pos36 grandchildrenamod
33--PUNCT_32 greatpunct
34greatgreatADJDegree=Pos36 grandchildrenamod
35--PUNCT_34 greatpunct
36grandchildrengrandchildNOUNNumber=Plur24 takenobl
37totoPART_38 playmark
38playplayVERBVerbForm=Inf36 grandchildrenacl
39withwithADP_38 playobl
40..PUNCT_9 showedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wingparticiplevn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2showpastthe beautiful winged Hippogriffthe wayHorsevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
3staypastHorsetherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4havepastthe KingHorsetree rules
5take outparticipleHorse not said herefor Horse's great great great great grandchildrenvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6playto-infinitiveHorse not said herevn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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