The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 75

When the people in the town saw the Dragon fly off after the Hippogriff and the King they all came out of their houses to look, and when they saw the two disappear they made up their minds to the worst, and began to think what they would wear for Court mourning.

Who acts: people, Dragon, two · What happens: see, fly off, come out, look, disappear, make up · To what, where: houses, minds · 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, two), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dragon	det
9	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fly	nsubj
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saw	ccomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 fly	compound:prt
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 Hippogriff	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hippogriff	det
14	Hippogriff	Hippogriff	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fly	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 King	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hippogriff	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 houses	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 houses	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 houses	nmod:poss
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 houses	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 saw	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 two	det
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 disappear	nsubj
34	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 saw	ccomp
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 disappear	ccomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 made	compound:prt
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 minds	nmod:poss
39	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 made	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 worst	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 worst	det
42	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 made	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 began	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 began	cc
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 think	mark
47	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 began	xcomp
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 wear	obj
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 wear	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 wear	aux
51	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 think	ccomp
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 mourning	case
53	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 mourning	compound
54	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wear	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the people in the town				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fly off	infinitive	the Dragon		after the Hippogriff and the King		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come out	past	people	people's houses			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
4	look	to-infinitive	people not said here	people's houses not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	past	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	disappear	present	the two				tree rules
7	make up	past	people	people's minds		bad property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
8	begin	past	people not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	think speech: other	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	wear	would	people			for Court mourning	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
11	mind		people				nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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