The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 102

But one morning their mother was busy preparing some new dragon poison to lay down in the cellars, and their father was bandaging the hand of the boot boy, which had been scratched by one of the dragons who liked to eat Prime Ministers when they were to be had, so nobody remembered to say to the children: "Don't get up till it is quite dark!"

Who acts: mother, father, dragons, nobody, hand · What happens: be, prepare, lay down, bandage, scratch, like · To what, where: dragon poison, cellars, hand, boot boy, Prime Ministers, police · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father, dragons, nobody), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 busy	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 morning	nummod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 busy	obl:unmarked
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 busy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	cop
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 busy	advcl
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 poison	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dragon	amod
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poison	compound
12	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 preparing	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 lay	mark
14	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 preparing	advcl
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 lay	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 cellars	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cellars	det
18	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lay	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bandaging	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bandaging	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bandaging	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bandaging	aux
24	bandaging	bandage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 preparing	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hand	det
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bandaging	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 boy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boy	det
29	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 boy	compound
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 scratched	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 scratched	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 scratched	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 scratched	aux:pass
35	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 boy	acl:relcl
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 one	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 scratched	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 dragons	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dragons	det
40	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 liked	nsubj
42	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dragons	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 eat	mark
44	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 liked	xcomp
45	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	46 Ministers	compound
46	Ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 eat	obj
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 had	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 had	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 had	aux
50	to	to	PART	_	52 had	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 had	aux:pass
52	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 eat	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 remembered	punct
54	so	so	ADV	_	56 remembered	advmod
55	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	56 remembered	nsubj
56	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 say	mark
58	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 remembered	xcomp
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 children	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 children	det
61	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 say	obl
62	:	:	PUNCT	_	66 get	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	66 get	punct
64	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	66 get	aux
65	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 get	advmod
66	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	parataxis
67	up	up	ADP	_	66 get	compound:prt
68	till	till	SCONJ	_	72 dark	mark
69	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 dark	nsubj
70	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 dark	cop
71	quite	quite	ADV	_	72 dark	advmod
72	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 get	advcl
73	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 busy	punct
74	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	police's mother				morning	busy property	tree rules
2	prepare	gerund	police's mother not said here	some dragon poison					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
3	lay down	to-infinitive	police's mother not said here			the cellars		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cellar=Destination
4	bandage	past · progressive	police's father	the hand of the boot boy					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Destination
5	scratch	past · perfect · passive		the boot boy				by one of the dragons	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient by one=Location
6	like	past	the dragons						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dragons not said here	Prime Ministers					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Patient
8	have	past · passive		police					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	remember	past	nobody						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		the children				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient
11	not get up in a quote	infinitive · do-support							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
12	is in a quote	present	hand					dark property	tree rules

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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