The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 22

So their pinafores were taken off and they all went to the Zoological Gardens, where twenty of them could ride at a time on the guinea pig, and where even the little ones could feed the great rabbits if some grown-up person were kind enough to lift them up for the purpose.

Who acts: pinafores, twenty, little ones, grown person · What happens: take off, go, ride, feed, grow up, be · To what, where: pinafores, Zoological Gardens, great rabbits, rabbits

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 (pinafores, twenty, little ones, grown person), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pinafores	nmod:poss
3	pinafores	pinafore	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taken	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 taken	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 went	advmod
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Gardens	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Gardens	det
13	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Gardens	compound
14	Gardens	Garden	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ride	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 ride	advmod
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 ride	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 twenty	nmod
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ride	aux
21	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	parataxis
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ride	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 pig	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pig	det
27	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pig	compound
28	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ride	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 feed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 feed	cc
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 feed	advmod
32	even	even	ADV	_	35 ones	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ones	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ones	amod
35	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 feed	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 feed	aux
37	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ride	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rabbits	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rabbits	amod
40	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 feed	iobj
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 kind	mark
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 person	det
43	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 person	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 up	punct
45	up	up	ADP	_	43 grown	compound:prt
46	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kind	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 kind	cop
48	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 feed	advcl
49	enough	enough	ADV	_	48 kind	advmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 lift	mark
51	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 kind	xcomp
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 lift	obj
53	up	up	ADP	_	51 lift	compound:prt
54	for	for	ADP	_	56 purpose	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 purpose	det
56	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lift	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past · passive		Gardens's pinafores					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	go	past	pinafores = pinafore			the Zoological Gardens			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location
3	ride	could	twenty of Gardens				time	on the guinea pig	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	feed	could	the little ones		the great rabbits				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient
5	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	some grown person					enough, kind property	tree rules
7	lift up	to-infinitive	some grown person not said here	rabbits = rabbit				for the purpose	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary

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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