The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 49

All the kitties and the milk the Manticora had had seemed to have strengthened its mew wonderfully.

Who acts: Manticora, kitties, milk · What happens: have, seem, strengthen, mew · To what, where: kitties, mew

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 (Manticora, kitties, milk), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 kitties	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kitties	det
3	kitties	kitty	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seemed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 milk	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 milk	det
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kitties	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Manticora	det
8	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	aux
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 kitties	acl:relcl
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	14 strengthened	mark
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 strengthened	aux
14	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 seemed	xcomp
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mew	nmod:poss
16	mew	mew	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strengthened	obj
17	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	14 strengthened	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	the Manticora	all kitties and the milk not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitty=Patient
2	seem	past	all kitties and the milk			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	strengthen	to-infinitive · perfect	all kitties and the milk not said here	milk's mew	wonderfully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mew=Patient
4	mew		milk			nom mew «event intransitive»: poss=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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