The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 28

So he took _The Book of Beasts_ out into the rose garden and opened the page next to the one where the Dragon had been just a tiny bit to see what the name was.

Who acts: Bird, Dragon, name · What happens: take, open, be, see · To what, where: Book, rose garden, page, one, tiny bit

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 (Bird, Dragon, name), 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 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Book	det
6	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Beasts	case
8	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Book	nmod
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
10	out	out	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 garden	compound
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 opened	cc
16	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 page	det
18	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	obj
19	next	next	ADV	_	16 opened	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 one	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 bit	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Dragon	det
25	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 bit	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bit	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 bit	cop
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 bit	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bit	amod
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 one	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 bit	acl
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 see	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 name	det
36	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 what	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 what	cop
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Bird	the Book of Beasts		the rose garden	out property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme into garden=Destination
2	open	past	Bird not said here	the page	the one		next property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent page=Patient to one=Recipient
3	is a	past · perfect	the Dragon	a tiny bit				tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	Bird not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	the name	a tiny bit				tree rules

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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