The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 16

She never slapped her hippopotamus when it broke her dolls in its playful gambols, and she never forgot to feed her rhinoceroses in their little hutch in the backyard.

Who acts: gardener, hippopotamus · What happens: not slap, break, not forget, feed, gambol · To what, where: hippopotamus, dolls, playful gambols, rhinoceroses, little hutch

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener, hippopotamus), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slapped	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 slapped	advmod
3	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hippopotamus	nmod:poss
5	hippopotamus	hippopotamus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slapped	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 broke	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slapped	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dolls	nmod:poss
10	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 broke	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 gambols	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gambols	nmod:poss
13	playful	playful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gambols	amod
14	gambols	gambol	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 broke	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forgot	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 forgot	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 forgot	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 forgot	advmod
19	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slapped	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 feed	mark
21	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forgot	xcomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rhinoceroses	nmod:poss
23	rhinoceroses	rhinoceros	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feed	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 hutch	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hutch	nmod:poss
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hutch	amod
27	hutch	hutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feed	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 backyard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 backyard	det
30	backyard	backyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hutch	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not slap	past	gardener	gardener's hippopotamus		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Patient
2	break	past	hippopotamus	gardener's dolls	hippopotamus's playful gambols	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doll=Patient
3	not forget	past	gardener			tree rules
4	feed	to-infinitive	gardener not said here	gardener's rhinoceroses	rhinoceroses's little hutch in the backyard	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rhinoceros=Value in hutch=Location
5	gambol		hippopotamus			nom gambol «act intransitive»: 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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