The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 48

The men and women and children in this wonderful island were quite the right size, because their ancestors had come over with the Conqueror long after the island had settled down and the animals grown on it.

Who acts: men, ancestors · What happens: be, come over, settle down, grow · To what, where: right size, animals, island

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 (men, ancestors), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 size	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 women	cc
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 children	cc
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 island	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 island	det
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 island	amod
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 men	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 size	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 size	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 size	det
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 size	amod
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ancestors	nmod:poss
19	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 size	parataxis
22	over	over	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 Conqueror	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Conqueror	det
25	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 settled	advmod
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 island	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 island	det
29	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 settled	obl
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 settled	aux
31	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 come	advcl
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 settled	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 animals	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 animals	det
35	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 settled	conj
36	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 animals	acl
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 grown	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 size	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the men in this wonderful island and women and children	the right size				tree rules
2	come over	past · perfect	men's ancestors				with the Conqueror; over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	settle down	past · perfect	men's ancestors not said here			after the island	long property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	grow	participle		the animals not said here	island			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

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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