The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 95

The next morning Uncle James put on his best coat and hat and the vest with the gold snakes on it--he was a magician, and he had a bright taste in vests--and he called with a cab to take the Princess out.

Who acts: Uncle · What happens: put, be, have, call, take out · To what, where: best coat, magician, bright taste, vests, Princess · 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), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl:unmarked
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj
5	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 coat	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 coat	nmod:poss
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 coat	amod
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hat	cc
12	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coat	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 vest	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vest	det
15	vest	vest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coat	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 snakes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 snakes	det
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 snakes	compound
19	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 vest	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 snakes	nmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 magician	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 magician	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 magician	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 magician	det
26	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 taste	det
32	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 taste	amod
33	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 vests	case
35	vests	vest	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 called	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 called	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 called	nsubj
39	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 cab	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cab	det
42	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 called	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 take	mark
44	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 called	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Princess	det
46	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 take	obj
47	out	out	ADP	_	44 take	compound:prt
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Uncle		uncle's best coat and hat and the vest with the gold snakes on vest	morning		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination
2	is a	past	uncle	a magician				tree rules
3	have	past	uncle	a bright taste	vests			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
4	call	past	uncle				with a cab	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take out	to-infinitive	uncle not said here	the Princess				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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