The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 44

And on the Saturday morning, when people were a little timid about going out, because the Dragon had no regular hour for calling, the Manticora went up and down the streets and drank all the milk that was left in the cans at the doors for people's teas, and it ate the cans as well.

Who acts: people, Dragon, Manticora, picture · What happens: be, go out, have, call, go up, drink · To what, where: milk, cans · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, Dragon, Manticora, picture), 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	_	12 timid	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
4	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 morning	compound
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 timid	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 morning	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 timid	mark
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 timid	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 timid	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 timid	obl:unmarked
12	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 going	mark
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 timid	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 going	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Dragon	det
19	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 timid	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 hour	det
22	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hour	amod
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 calling	mark
25	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 had	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Manticora	det
28	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 timid	parataxis
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 streets	cc
32	down	down	ADP	_	34 streets	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 streets	det
34	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 went	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 drank	cc
36	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 milk	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 milk	det
39	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drank	obj
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 left	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 left	aux:pass
42	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 milk	acl:relcl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 cans	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 cans	det
45	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 left	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 doors	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 doors	det
48	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 left	obl
49	for	for	ADP	_	52 teas	case
50	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 teas	nmod:poss
51	's	's	PART	_	50 people	case
52	teas	tea	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 left	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 ate	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 ate	cc
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 ate	nsubj
56	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 timid	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 cans	det
58	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 ate	obj
59	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	56 ate	advmod
60	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	59 as	fixed
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 timid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	people			morning	a little obl:unmarked; timid property	tree rules
2	go out	gerund	people not said here					vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the Dragon			hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	call	gerund	the Dragon not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go up	past	the Manticora					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	drink	past	the Manticora not said here	all milk				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
7	leave	past · passive		all milk	the cans		at the doors; for people's teas	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in can=Location
8	eat	past	picture	the cans				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient

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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