The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 75

He went straight home and told his little elephant; and the elephant cheered him up so much that presently the two grew quite absorbed in a top that the elephant was spinning with his little trunk.

Who acts: Tom, elephant · What happens: go, tell, cheer up, absorb, spin · To what, where: little elephant, Tom, two, top · 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 (Tom, elephant), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 home	advmod
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 elephant	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 elephant	amod
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cheered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cheered	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elephant	det
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cheered	nsubj
14	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cheered	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 cheered	compound:prt
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	14 cheered	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 absorbed	mark
20	presently	presently	ADV	_	22 two	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 two	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 absorbed	nsubj:pass
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 absorbed	aux:pass
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 absorbed	advmod
25	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cheered	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 absorbed	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 spinning	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 elephant	det
31	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spinning	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 spinning	aux
33	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 top	acl
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 trunk	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 trunk	nmod:poss
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 trunk	amod
37	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spinning	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tom				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Tom not said here		Tom's little elephant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient
3	cheer up	past	the elephant	Tom				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	absorb	past · passive		the two		a top		vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	spin	past · progressive	the elephant	a top not said here			with Tom's little trunk	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent top=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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