The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

Then, in the afternoon, when all the little dukes and duchesses and marquises and countesses had finished their rice pudding and had had their hands and faces washed after it, Nurse would say: "Now, my dears, what would you like to do this afternoon?" just as if she didn't know.

Who acts: Nurse, you · What happens: finish, have, wash, say, like, do · To what, where: little dukes, hands, dears · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Nurse, you), 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	19 finished	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 afternoon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 afternoon	det
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finished	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 afternoon	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 finished	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 dukes	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dukes	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dukes	amod
11	dukes	duke	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 finished	nsubj:pass
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 duchesses	cc
13	duchesses	duchess	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dukes	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 marquises	cc
15	marquises	marquis	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dukes	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 countesses	cc
17	countesses	countess	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dukes	conj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 finished	aux
19	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 say	advcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pudding	nmod:poss
21	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pudding	compound
22	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finished	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 finished	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 faces	cc
29	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hands	conj
30	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 had	conj
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 washed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct
34	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 say	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 say	aux
36	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 dears	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 dears	punct
39	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 dears	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dears	punct
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 dears	nmod:poss
42	dears	dear	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 say	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 like	punct
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 like	obj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 like	aux
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 like	nsubj
47	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 dears	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	49 do	mark
49	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 like	xcomp
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 afternoon	det
51	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 do	obl:unmarked
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	47 like	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 like	punct
54	just	just	ADV	_	60 know	advmod
55	as	as	ADV	_	60 know	advmod
56	if	if	SCONJ	_	60 know	mark
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 know	nsubj
58	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 know	aux
59	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 know	advmod
60	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 like	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		all little dukes and duchesses and marquises and countesses	then; afternoon	tree rules
2	have	past · perfect		dukes's hands and faces		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	wash	participle			after pudding	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: ask	would	Nurse	my dears		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dear=Topic
5	like in a quote	would	you	my dears		tree rules
6	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		afternoon	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not know a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	nurse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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