The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 10

And all the titled children took it in turns to feed the dragon with acid drops, and he seemed pleased and flattered, and wagged as much of his purple tail as he could get at conveniently; for it was a very, very long tail indeed.

Who acts: titled children, Rotundia, dragon · What happens: title, take, feed, seem, flatter, wag · To what, where: dragon, turns, much

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (titled children, Rotundia, dragon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 children	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
4	titled	title	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 turns	case
9	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 feed	mark
11	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feed	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 drops	case
15	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drops	compound
16	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	parataxis
21	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seemed	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flattered	cc
23	flattered	flatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seemed	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wagged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wagged	cc
26	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	parataxis
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wagged	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 tail	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tail	nmod:poss
31	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tail	amod
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 much	nmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 get	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 much	advcl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 conveniently	case
38	conveniently	conveniently	ADV	_	36 get	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 tail	punct
40	for	for	ADP	_	48 tail	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 tail	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 tail	cop
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 tail	det
44	very	very	ADV	_	47 long	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 very	punct
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 long	advmod
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 tail	amod
48	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wagged	conj
49	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	48 tail	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	title	participle						tree rules
2	take	past	all titled children	dragon		turns		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in turn=Location
3	feed	to-infinitive	all titled children not said here		the dragon		with acid drops	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Recipient
4	seem	past	Rotundia				pleased property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	flatter	past	Rotundia not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	wag	past		much of Rotundia's purple tail				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
7	get	could	Rotundia					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	dragon				for a long tail; indeed 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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