The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 25

Effie had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always seemed to think it was natural--rather tiresome and naughty perhaps, but still natural.

Who acts: Effie, father · What happens: get, have, seem, think, be · To what, where: things, eye · 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 (Effie, father), 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	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
9	before	before	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 seemed	advmod
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seemed	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 natural	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 natural	cop
21	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 think	ccomp
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 tiresome	punct
23	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 tiresome	advmod
24	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 natural	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 naughty	cc
26	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 natural	conj
27	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	26 naughty	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 natural	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 natural	cc
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 natural	advmod
31	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 natural	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	Effie	things	Effie's eye	before, often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	have	past	Effie's father				tree rules
3	seem	past	Effie's father not said here			always property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Effie's father not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past				natural property	tree rules
6	be						tree rules
7	be					perhaps 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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