The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 73

He did not go very near the rabbits, of course, because when a rabbit of that size is at play it does not always look where it is going, and it might easily have crushed Tom with its foot, and then it would have been very sorry afterward.

Who acts: Tom, rabbit, it, play · What happens: not go, be, not look, go, crush · To what, where: play

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 (Tom, rabbit, it, play), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 rabbits	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rabbits	det
8	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 course	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 course	case
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 when	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 when	mark
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 go	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rabbit	det
16	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 play	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 size	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 size	det
19	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rabbit	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 play	cop
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 play	case
22	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 when	nsubj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 look	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 look	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 look	advmod
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 look	advmod
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 play	acl:relcl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 going	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 going	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 look	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 crushed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 crushed	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 crushed	nsubj:pass
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 crushed	aux
36	easily	easily	ADV	_	38 crushed	advmod
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 crushed	aux
38	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 going	advcl
39	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 crushed	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 foot	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 foot	nmod:poss
42	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Tom	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sorry	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sorry	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 sorry	advmod
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 sorry	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 sorry	aux
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 sorry	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 sorry	cop
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 sorry	advmod
51	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 look	conj
52	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	51 sorry	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · do-support	Tom				near the rabbits; of course	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of course=Initial_Location
2	is	present	a rabbit of that size		play			tree rules
3	not look	present · do-support	it	play not said here			always property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme play=Attribute
4	go	present · progressive	play					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crush	might · perfect · passive		play			easily property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ PP.instrument»: subject=Patient tom=Result with foot=Instrument
6	is	would · perfect	play			then	afterward, sorry property	tree rules

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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