The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 124

So the next afternoon, quite early, long before the beams of sunset announced the coming night, when everybody would be up and working, the two children got out of bed.

Who acts: next afternoon, everybody, two children · What happens: announce, come, be, work, get out, beam · To what, where: bed, sunset · 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 (next afternoon, everybody, two children), 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	So	so	ADV	_	15 announced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afternoon	amod
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 announced	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 early	punct
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 early	advmod
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 announced	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 announced	punct
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 announced	advmod
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 announced	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beams	det
12	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 announced	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 sunset	case
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beams	nmod
15	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 night	amod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 announced	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 up	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 up	advmod
21	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 up	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 up	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 up	cop
24	up	up	ADV	_	15 announced	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 working	cc
26	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 up	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 got	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 children	nummod
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 got	nsubj
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 announced	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	34 bed	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 bed	case
34	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 announced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	announce speech: other	past	the next afternoon		night	early, long property	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	come	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	would	everybody			up property	tree rules
4	work	gerund	everybody not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get out	past	the two children	bed			tree rules
6	beam			sunset			nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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