The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

Then he made a law that everyone should always have enough to eat.

Who acts: Lionel, everyone · What happens: make, have, eat · To what, where: law

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, everyone), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 have	obj
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 have	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 have	advmod
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl:relcl
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 enough	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Lionel	a law	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product
2	have	should	everyone	a law		always property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	everyone not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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