The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 20

He did not like many things--a nice kingdom was almost the only thing he cared for--but he had never seen his way quite clearly, because everyone is so kind in Rotundia that wicked spells will not work there, but run off those blameless islanders like water off a duck's back.

Who acts: uncle, nice kingdom, everyone, that · What happens: not like, be, care, not see, not work, run off · To what, where: many things, only thing, way, Rotundia, blameless islanders, back

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 (uncle, nice kingdom, everyone, that), 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 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kingdom	det
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kingdom	amod
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thing	cop
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 thing	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 things	appos
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cared	nsubj
17	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thing	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	17 cared	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 like	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obj
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 clearly	advmod
28	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	24 seen	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kind	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 kind	mark
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 kind	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 kind	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 kind	advmod
34	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seen	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Rotundia	case
36	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 kind	obl
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 work	nsubj
38	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 spells	amod
39	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 work	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 work	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 work	advmod
42	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 kind	parataxis
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 work	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 run	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 run	cc
46	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	conj
47	off	off	ADP	_	46 run	compound:prt
48	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	50 islanders	det
49	blameless	blameless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 islanders	amod
50	islanders	islander	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 run	obj
51	like	like	ADP	_	52 water	case
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 islanders	nmod
53	off	off	ADP	_	57 back	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 duck	det
55	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 back	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 duck	case
57	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 run	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	uncle	many things			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
2	is a	past	a nice kingdom	the only thing		almost property	tree rules
3	care	past	uncle	the only thing not said here			tree rules
4	not see	past · perfect	uncle	uncle's way		clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
5	is	present	everyone		Rotundia	kind property	tree rules
6	not work	future	that		there		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	run off	present	uncle not said here	that blameless islanders	a duck's back	like water	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent islander=Theme off back=Trajectory

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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