The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 97

You see, it was impossible for the Dragon to take them into the book with him--it was a tight fit even for one Dragon--so, of course, he had to leave them outside.

Who acts: You, Orphanage, Dragon · What happens: see, be, take, have, leave · To what, where: Players, book, tight fit · 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 (You, Orphanage, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 impossible	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 Dragon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dragon	det
9	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 impossible	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 impossible	csubj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 book	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 book	det
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 book	nmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 fit	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fit	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fit	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fit	det
22	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fit	amod
23	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
24	even	even	ADV	_	27 Dragon	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 Dragon	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Dragon	nummod
27	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fit	appos
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 so	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
31	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	35 had	advmod
32	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 of	fixed
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 of	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 leave	mark
37	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 leave	obj
39	outside	outside	ADV	_	37 leave	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past				for the Dragon; impossible property	tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive		Players = player	the book with Dragon		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into book=Destination
4	is a	past	Orphanage	a tight fit			tree rules
5	have	past	Dragon				tree rules
6	leave	to-infinitive	Dragon not said here	Players = player		outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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