The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 81
Boys brought barrowloads of dead dragons, and children on their way home from morning school would call in to leave the handful or two of little dragons they had brought in their satchels, or carried in their knotted pocket handkerchiefs.
Who acts: Boys, little dragons · What happens: bring, call in, leave, carry, knot · To what, where: barrowloads, way, morning school, handful, satchels, knotted pocket handkerchiefs
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 (Boys, little dragons), 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 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | barrowloads | barrowload | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dragons | case |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dragons | amod |
| 6 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 barrowloads | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 children | cc |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 barrowloads | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 way | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 school | case |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 school | compound |
| 16 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | obl |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 call | aux |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 call | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 leave | mark |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 call | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 handful | det |
| 23 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 two | cc |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 handful | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 dragons | case |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dragons | amod |
| 28 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 handful | nmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 brought | aux |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 dragons | acl:relcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 satchels | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 satchels | nmod:poss |
| 34 | satchels | satchel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 brought | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 carried | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 carried | cc |
| 37 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 satchels | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 handkerchiefs | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 handkerchiefs | nmod:poss |
| 40 | knotted | knot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 handkerchiefs | amod |
| 41 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 handkerchiefs | compound | ||
| 42 | handkerchiefs | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 carried | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Boys | barrowloads of dead dragons and children | children's way | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent barrowload=Theme on way=Destination | |||
| 2 | call in speech: assert | would | morning school | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from school=Source | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | the handful of little dragons | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | little dragons not said here | barrowloads = barrowload | barrowloads's satchels | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | carry | participle | barrowloads's satchels not said here | barrowloads's knotted pocket handkerchiefs | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in handkerchief=Location | ||||
| 6 | knot | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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