The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 77

He looked out across the downs--there were hardly any rabbits playing there now--and then he gathered white roses and threw them at the Princess's window till she woke up and looked out.

Who acts: Tom, rabbits, Princess · What happens: look out, be, play, gather, throw, wake up · To what, where: downs, white roses, roses, window

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, rabbits, Princess), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 downs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 downs	det
6	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	12 rabbits	advmod
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 rabbits	det
12	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
13	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 rabbits	acl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 playing	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 playing	advmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 gathered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gathered	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 gathered	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gathered	nsubj
20	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 roses	amod
22	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gathered	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 threw	cc
24	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 threw	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 window	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 window	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Princess	case
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obl
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 woke	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 woke	nsubj
33	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 threw	advcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 woke	compound:prt
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 looked	cc
36	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 woke	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 looked	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look out	past	Tom		the downs		vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	any rabbits		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	gerund	any rabbits not said here		there	now	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	gather	past	Tom	white roses		then	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme
5	throw	past	Tom not said here	roses = rose	the Princess's window		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at window=Destination
6	wake up	past	Princess				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	look out	past	Princess not said here				vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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