The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 73

The ones as big as dogs got in the bath, and the fire and smoke inside them made them steam like anything when the cold water tap was turned on, so that careless people were often scalded quite severely.

Who acts: dogs, ones · What happens: get, make, turn on, scald · To what, where: bath, fire, cold water tap, careless people

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 (dogs, ones), 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	2 ones	det
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	nsubj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 got	mark
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bath	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bath	det
10	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smoke	cc
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fire	conj
17	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 smoke	nmod
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 anything	case
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 steam	nmod
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 turned	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tap	det
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tap	amod
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tap	compound
28	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	aux:pass
30	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 made	advcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 turned	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 scalded	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 scalded	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 scalded	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 scalded	aux:pass
38	often	often	ADV	_	39 scalded	advmod
39	scalded	scald	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 turned	conj
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	41 severely	advmod
41	severely	severely	ADV	_	39 scalded	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	dogs		the bath		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	past	the ones	fire			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary steam=Product
3	turn on	past · passive		the cold water tap			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	scald	past · passive		careless people		often, severely property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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