The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 96

And indeed there was quite a crowd round them on the Pebbly Waste: the Prime Minister and the Parliament and the Soccer Players and the Orphanage and the Manticora and the Rocking Horse, and indeed everyone who had been eaten by the Dragon.

Who acts: Dragon · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: crowd, Pebbly Waste, everyone

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 (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	_	7 crowd	cc
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crowd	cop
5	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	7 crowd	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 crowd	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 Waste	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Waste	det
12	Pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Waste	amod
13	Waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crowd	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Minister	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Minister	det
16	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	17 Minister	compound
17	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Waste	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Parliament	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Parliament	det
20	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Minister	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Players	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Players	det
23	Soccer	Soccer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Players	compound
24	Players	Player	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 Minister	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Orphanage	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Orphanage	det
27	Orphanage	Orphanage	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Minister	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Manticora	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Manticora	det
30	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Minister	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Horse	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Horse	det
33	Rocking	Rocking	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Horse	compound
34	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Minister	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 eaten	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 eaten	cc
37	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	38 everyone	advmod
38	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	42 eaten	nsubj:pass
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 eaten	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 eaten	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 eaten	aux:pass
42	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Minister	acl:relcl
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 Dragon	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Dragon	det
45	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 eaten	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crowd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		quite crowd		the Pebbly Waste		round clasps = clasp	tree rules
2	eat	past · perfect · passive	the Dragon	everyone					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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