The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 47

As it was, they made him a house, and it saved the expense of a brass band, because no band could possibly have been heard when the dormouse was talking in his sleep.

Who acts: dormouse, Rotundians, pig · What happens: be, make, save, hear, talk, sleep · To what, where: house, pig, expense, band, sleep

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 (dormouse, Rotundians, pig), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 was	nsubj
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saved	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saved	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saved	nsubj
13	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 expense	det
15	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saved	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 band	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 band	det
18	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 band	compound
19	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 expense	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 heard	mark
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 band	det
23	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heard	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	aux
25	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	28 heard	advmod
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 heard	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 heard	aux:pass
28	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 saved	conj
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 talking	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dormouse	det
31	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 talking	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 talking	aux
33	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 heard	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 sleep	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 sleep	nmod:poss
36	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 talking	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	dormouse					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	Rotundians = rotundian	a house	pig			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary house=Product
3	save	past	dormouse	the expense of a brass band				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Theme
4	hear	could · perfect · passive		no band			possibly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	talk	past · progressive	the dormouse			pig's sleep		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep		pig					nom sleep «state 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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