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The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 77

Of course, the County Council and the police did everything that could be done: It was no use offering the hand of the Princess to anyone who killed a dragon.

Who acts: police, Council, use · What happens: do, be, offer, kill · To what, where: everything, use, hand, anyone, dragon

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 (police, Council, use), 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

casefixedpunctdetcompoundoblccdetnsubjobjobjauxaux:passacl:relclpunctnsubjcopdetadvclacldetobjcasedetnmodcaseoblnsubjacl:relcldetobjpunctrootOfADPcourseNOUN,PUNCTtheDETCountyPROPNCouncilPROPNandCCONJtheDETpoliceNOUNdidVERBeverythingPRONthatPRONcouldAUXbeAUXdoneVERB:PUNCTItPRONwasAUXnoDETuseNOUNofferingVERBtheDEThandNOUNofADPtheDETPrincessNOUNtoADPanyonePRONwhoPRONkilledVERBaDETdragonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OfofADP_6 Councilcase
2coursecourseNOUNNumber=Sing1 Offixed
3,,PUNCT_1 Ofpunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Councildet
5CountyCountyPROPNNumber=Sing6 Councilcompound
6CouncilCouncilPROPNNumber=Sing10 didobl
7andandCCONJ_9 policecc
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 policedet
9policepoliceNOUNNumber=Plur10 didnsubj
10diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11everythingeverythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot10 didobj
12thatthatPRONPronType=Rel15 doneobj
13couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin15 doneaux
14bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf15 doneaux:pass
15donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 everythingacl:relcl
16::PUNCT_20 usepunct
17ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 usensubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 usecop
19nonoDETPronType=Neg20 usedet
20useuseNOUNNumber=Sing10 didadvcl
21offeringofferVERBVerbForm=Ger20 useacl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 handdet
23handhandNOUNNumber=Sing21 offeringobj
24ofofADP_26 Princesscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Princessdet
26PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing23 handnmod
27totoADP_28 anyonecase
28anyoneanyonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind21 offeringobl
29whowhoPRONPronType=Rel30 killednsubj
30killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 anyoneacl:relcl
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 dragondet
32dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing30 killedobj
33..PUNCT_10 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastthe policeeverythingof the County Councilvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2docould · passivevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality
3is apastCouncilno usetree rules
4offergerundno use not said herethe hand of the Princessanyonevn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to anyone=Goal
5killpasta dragonvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme

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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