The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 33

At first the people of Rotundia were quite pleased with the dragon, who lived by the pillar and fed himself from the bun trees, but by-and-by he began to wander.

Who acts: people, dragon, Rotundia · What happens: be, live, feed, begin, wander · To what, where: Rotundia, bun trees

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 (people, dragon, Rotundia), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 pleased	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pleased	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Rotundia	case
6	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pleased	cop
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 pleased	advmod
9	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 dragon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pleased	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dragon	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 pillar	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pillar	det
18	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fed	cc
20	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lived	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 fed	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 trees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trees	det
24	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trees	compound
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 began	mark
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 by	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 by	cc
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 by	punct
32	by	by	ADP	_	28 by	fixed
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 began	nsubj
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pleased	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 wander	mark
36	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 began	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the people of Rotundia			with the dragon; pleased property	tree rules
2	live	past	the dragon			by the pillar	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pillar=Location
3	feed	past	the dragon not said here	Rotundia	the bun trees		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
4	begin	past	Rotundia				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wander	to-infinitive	Rotundia not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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