The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 116

A crowd had followed the cab out of the town; now they reached the scene of the "State Function"--and they all cried out: "Fair play--play fair!

Who acts: rabbits, Fair play · What happens: follow, reach, cry out, play · To what, where: crowd, town, scene, Fair play · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rabbits, Fair 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crowd	det
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	aux
4	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cab	det
6	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 town	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 reached	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 reached	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reached	nsubj
14	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 scene	det
16	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 Function	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Function	det
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Function	punct
20	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Function	compound
21	Function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 scene	nmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Function	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 cried	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cried	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cried	nsubj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 cried	advmod
27	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reached	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cried	compound:prt
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 play	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 play	punct
31	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 play	amod
32	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 play	punct
34	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 play	acl
35	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 play	xcomp
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past · perfect · passive		a crowd	the town			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme cab=Attribute
2	reach	past	rabbits = rabbit	the scene of the State Function		now		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent scene=Theme
3	cry out speech: express	past	rabbits = rabbit	Fair play				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play in a quote	infinitive	Fair play not said here				fair property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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