The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 74

The ones that were as large as pigeons would get into workbaskets or corner drawers and bite you when you were in a hurry to get a needle or a handkerchief.

Who acts: ones, you · What happens: be, get, bite · To what, where: workbaskets, you, hurry, needle

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 (ones, you), 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	10 get	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 large	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 large	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	acl:relcl
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 pigeons	case
8	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 large	obl
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 workbaskets	case
12	workbaskets	workbasket	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 drawers	cc
14	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drawers	compound
15	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 workbaskets	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bite	cc
17	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 bite	obj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 hurry	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 hurry	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hurry	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hurry	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hurry	det
24	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bite	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 get	mark
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bite	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 needle	det
28	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 handkerchief	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 handkerchief	det
31	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 needle	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ones			as pigeons; large property	tree rules
2	get	would	the ones		workbaskets or corner drawers		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into workbasket=Destination
3	bite	present	the ones not said here	you			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	is	past	you		a hurry		tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive	the ones not said here	a needle or a handkerchief			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer needle=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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