The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 5

So when he said: "There is to be a law forbidding people to open books in schools or elsewhere"--he had the support of at least half of his subjects, and the other half--the grown-up half--pretended to think he was quite right.

Who acts: Lionel, law · What happens: say, be, forbid, open, have, grow up · To what, where: people, books, schools, support, half · 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 (Lionel, law), 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	_	4 said	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 said	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
7	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 forbidding	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	13 forbidding	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 forbidding	aux
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 law	det
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forbidding	nsubj
13	forbidding	forbid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forbidding	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 open	mark
16	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forbidding	advcl
17	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 open	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 schools	case
19	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 open	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 elsewhere	cc
21	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	19 schools	advmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 elsewhere	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 support	det
27	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 half	case
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 least	case
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 half	nmod
31	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	27 support	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 subjects	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 subjects	nmod:poss
34	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 half	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 half	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 half	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 half	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 half	amod
39	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 had	conj
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 half	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 half	det
42	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 half	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 up	punct
44	up	up	ADP	_	42 grown	compound:prt
45	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	39 half	conj
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 pretended	punct
47	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 half	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 think	mark
49	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 pretended	xcomp
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 right	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 right	cop
52	quite	quite	ADV	_	53 right	advmod
53	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 think	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lionel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	a law not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forbid in a quote	to-infinitive · progressive	a law	people			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer people=Theme
4	open in a quote	to-infinitive	a law not said here	books	schools		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme in school=Location
5	have	past	Lionel	the support of half at least of Lionel's subjects			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Patient
6	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pretend	participle	Lionel not said here				tree rules
8	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Lionel not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	Lionel			right property	tree rules
10	support			half at least of Lionel's subjects			nom support «act transitive»: of=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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