The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

And just when it had finished the very last little halfpenny worth, which was short measure, because the milkman's nerves were quite upset, the Red Dragon came down the street looking for the Manticora.

Who acts: last little halfpenny, nerves, Red Dragon · What happens: finish, be, come down, look · To what, where: picture, short measure, street

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 (last little halfpenny, nerves, Red Dragon), 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	_	6 finished	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 finished	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 finished	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 halfpenny	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 last	advmod
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 halfpenny	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 halfpenny	amod
11	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obj
12	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 halfpenny	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 measure	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 measure	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 measure	cop
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 measure	amod
17	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 halfpenny	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 upset	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 upset	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 milkman	det
21	milkman	milkman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nerves	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 milkman	case
23	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 upset	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 upset	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 upset	advmod
26	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 finished	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Dragon	det
29	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Dragon	flat
30	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 upset	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	34 street	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 street	det
34	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 came	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 Manticora	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Manticora	det
38	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 looking	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		picture		tree rules
2	is a	past	the last little halfpenny and short measure	short measure		tree rules
3	is	past	the milkman's nerves		upset property	tree rules
4	come down	past	the Red Dragon	the street		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme
5	look	gerund	the Red Dragon not said here		for the Manticora	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for manticora=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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