The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 25

The intelligent little creature listened carefully, and then climbed from Tom's knee to the table, on which stood an ornamental calendar that the Princess had given Tom for a Christmas present.

Who acts: intelligent little creature · What happens: listen, climb, stand, give · To what, where: intelligent little creature, knee, ornamental calendar, Princess

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 (intelligent little creature), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creature	det
2	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	nsubj
5	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 creature	acl
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 listened	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climbed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 climbed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 climbed	advmod
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 knee	case
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 knee	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Tom	case
14	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 climbed	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 calendar	det
23	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 calendar	amod
24	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 given	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princess	det
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 given	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 given	aux
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 stood	advcl
30	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 given	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 present	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 present	det
33	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 present	compound
34	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 given	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	participle		the intelligent little creature not said here			carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	climb	past	the intelligent little creature		Tom's knee	then	to the table	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from knee=Initial_Location to table=Destination
3	stand	past		a ornamental calendar				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calendar=Stimulus
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the Princess			for a Christmas present	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient tom=Theme for present=Asset

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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