The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 80

The County Council undertook to cremate all dragons delivered at their offices between the hours of ten and two, and whole wagonloads and cartloads and truckloads of dead dragons could be seen any day of the week standing in a long line in the street where the County Council had their offices.

Who acts: County Council · What happens: undertake, cremate, deliver, see, stand, have · To what, where: dragons, offices, whole wagonloads, long line

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 (County Council), 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	3 Council	det
2	County	County	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Council	compound
3	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 undertook	nsubj
4	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cremate	mark
6	cremate	cremate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 undertook	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dragons	det
8	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cremate	obj
9	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dragons	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 offices	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 offices	nmod:poss
12	offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 delivered	obl
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 hours	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hours	det
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 offices	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 ten	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hours	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 two	cc
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 ten	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seen	cc
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wagonloads	amod
23	wagonloads	wagonload	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seen	nsubj:pass
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cartloads	cc
25	cartloads	cartload	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wagonloads	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 truckloads	cc
27	truckloads	truckload	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wagonloads	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 dragons	case
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dragons	amod
30	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 truckloads	nmod
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 undertook	advcl
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	obl:unmarked
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 week	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 week	det
38	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 day	nmod
39	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 seen	advcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 line	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 line	det
42	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 line	amod
43	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 standing	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 street	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 street	det
46	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 line	nmod
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 had	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Council	det
49	County	County	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Council	compound
50	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 had	nsubj
51	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 street	acl:relcl
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 offices	nmod:poss
53	offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 had	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	undertake	past	the County Council				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cremate	to-infinitive	the County Council not said here	all dragons			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
3	deliver	participle		all dragons not said here	rewards's offices between the hours of ten		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	see	could · passive		whole wagonloads and cartloads and truckloads of dead dragons		day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	stand	gerund			a long line in the street		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location
6	have	past	the County Council	rewards's offices			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=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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