The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 76

The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuce, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

Who acts: ones, people · What happens: not eat, scorch · To what, where: people, sheets

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ones	det
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 size	det
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ones	nmod:unmarked
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lettuce	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 lettuce	advmod
11	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scorched	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 scorched	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scorched	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 scorched	advmod
16	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sheets	det
18	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scorched	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pillowcases	cc
20	pillowcases	pillowcase	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sheets	conj
21	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	16 scorched	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · do-support	the ones this size	people				lettuce obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	scorch	past	people	the sheets and pillowcases				always, dreadfully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sheet=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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