The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 21

Now, however, Uncle James thought there might be a chance for him--because he knew that now there were two wicked people on the island who could stand by each other--himself and the dragon.

Who acts: Uncle, chance, two wicked people · What happens: think, be, know, stand · To what, where: uncle, island · 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 (Uncle, chance, two wicked people), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 thought	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
6	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 be	expl
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chance	det
12	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 be	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chance	nmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 knew	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 stand	mark
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 were	advmod
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 were	expl
22	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stand	advcl
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 people	nummod
24	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 were	nsubj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 island	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 island	det
28	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stand	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 stand	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 stand	aux
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knew	ccomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	31 stand	obl
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 each	fixed
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 himself	punct
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 stand	obl:unmarked
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 dragon	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 dragon	det
39	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 himself	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Uncle			now	however property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	might	a chance for uncle		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	uncle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past	two wicked people		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stand	could		uncle	the island		by each	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=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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