The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 55

For the next morning, when the knife-boy was cleaning the doctor's boots, he suddenly dropped the brushes and the boot and the blacking, and screamed out that he was burnt.

Who acts: knife boy, boy · What happens: clean, drop, scream out, burnt · To what, where: boots, brushes, boy

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 (knife boy, boy), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropped	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cleaning	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 cleaning	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 knife	punct
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cleaning	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cleaning	aux
12	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 morning	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doctor	det
14	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boots	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 doctor	case
16	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cleaning	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dropped	nsubj
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 dropped	advmod
20	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brushes	det
22	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dropped	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 boot	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boot	det
25	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brushes	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 blacking	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 blacking	det
28	blacking	blacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brushes	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 screamed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 screamed	cc
31	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 dropped	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 screamed	compound:prt
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 burnt	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 burnt	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 burnt	aux:pass
36	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 screamed	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past · progressive	the knife boy	the doctor's boots			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
2	drop	past	boy	the brushes and the boot and the blacking	morning	suddenly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
3	scream out speech: express	participle	boy not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	burnt	past · passive		boy			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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