The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 44

He stayed to lunch, and he and the doctor quarreled very happily all the afternoon about the name and the family of the thing that had come out of Effie's eye.

Who acts: professor, thing · What happens: stay, quarrel, come out · To what, where: eye

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 (professor, thing), 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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 lunch	case
4	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quarreled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 quarreled	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 quarreled	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 doctor	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doctor	det
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 he	conj
11	quarreled	quarrel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 happily	advmod
13	happily	happily	ADV	_	11 quarreled	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 afternoon	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 afternoon	det
16	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quarreled	obl:unmarked
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 name	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 name	det
19	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quarreled	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 family	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 family	det
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 name	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 thing	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thing	det
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 family	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 come	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 thing	acl:relcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	33 eye	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 eye	case
31	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 eye	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Effie	case
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	professor			to lunch	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	quarrel	past	professor		afternoon	about the name and the family of the thing; happily property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about name=Theme
3	come out	past · perfect	the thing	Effie's eye			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result

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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