The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 70

The large-size dragons were terrible certainly, but when once you had found out that the dragons always went to bed early because they were afraid of the chill night air, you had only to stay indoors all day, and you were pretty safe from the big ones.

Who acts: size dragons, you, dragons, elephants · What happens: be, find out, go, have, stay · To what, where: bed

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 (size dragons, you, dragons, elephants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragons	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 size	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 large	punct
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragons	compound
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 terrible	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terrible	cop
7	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 terrible	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 found	mark
12	once	once	SCONJ	_	15 found	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 found	aux
15	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 terrible	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 found	compound:prt
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dragons	det
19	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	nsubj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 went	advmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 found	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 went	advmod
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 afraid	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 afraid	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 afraid	cop
28	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 went	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 air	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
31	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 night	compound
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 air	compound
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 afraid	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terrible	parataxis
37	only	only	ADV	_	39 stay	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 stay	mark
39	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
40	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	39 stay	advmod
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stay	obl:unmarked
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 safe	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 safe	cc
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 safe	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 safe	cop
47	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	48 safe	advmod
48	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 had	conj
49	from	from	ADP	_	52 ones	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ones	det
51	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 ones	amod
52	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 safe	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 terrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the size dragons			certainly, terrible property	tree rules
2	find out	past · perfect	you				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the dragons	bed		always, early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	is	past	elephants = elephant			of the night air; afraid property	tree rules
5	have	past	you				tree rules
6	stay	to-infinitive	you not said here		day	indoors property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	you			from the big ones; pretty, safe 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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