The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 65

They breathed fire and smoke, as all proper dragons must, but still the newspapers went on pretending they were lizards, until the editor of the _Standard_ was picked up and carried away by a very large one, and then the other newspaper people had not anyone left to tell them what they ought not to believe.

Who acts: sizes, newspapers, other newspaper people · What happens: breathe, go, pretend, be, pick up, carry away · To what, where: fire, lizards, editor, anyone, sizes · 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 (sizes, newspapers, other newspaper people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breathed	nsubj
2	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smoke	cc
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fire	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 must	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 must	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 dragons	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dragons	amod
10	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 must	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 breathed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 newspapers	det
16	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 breathed	conj
18	on	on	SCONJ	_	19 pretending	mark
19	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 went	advcl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lizards	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lizards	cop
22	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pretending	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 picked	punct
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 picked	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 editor	det
26	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 picked	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 _	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 _	det
29	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 _	compound
30	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 _	compound
31	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 editor	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 picked	aux:pass
33	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 went	parataxis
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 picked	compound:prt
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 carried	cc
36	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 picked	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 carried	advmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	42 one	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 one	det
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 large	advmod
41	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 one	amod
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 carried	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 had	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 had	advmod
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 people	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 people	amod
48	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 people	compound
49	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 breathed	conj
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 anyone	advmod
52	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	50 had	obj
53	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 anyone	acl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 tell	mark
55	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 left	advcl
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 tell	iobj
57	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	62 believe	obj
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 believe	nsubj
59	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 believe	aux
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 believe	advmod
61	to	to	PART	_	62 believe	mark
62	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 tell	ccomp
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 breathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past	sizes = size	fire and smoke				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	go	past	the newspapers			still		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pretend	gerund	the newspapers not said here					tree rules
4	is a	past	sizes = size	lizards				tree rules
5	pick up	past · passive		the editor of the _ Standard _				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
6	carry away	participle					by a large one; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	the other newspaper people	anyone		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
8	leave	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			sizes = size			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
10	not believe not said to happen	ought	sizes = size					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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