The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 86
The shops were full of patent dragon poison and anti-dragon soap, and dragonproof curtains for the windows; and indeed, everything that could be done was done.
Who acts: shops · What happens: be, do · To what, where: everything
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 (shops), 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 shops | det |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 poison | case |
| 6 | patent | patent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragon | compound |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poison | compound |
| 8 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 soap | cc |
| 10 | anti-dragon | anti-dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soap | compound |
| 11 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poison | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 curtains | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 curtains | cc |
| 14 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 curtains | amod |
| 15 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 windows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 windows | det |
| 18 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 curtains | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 done | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 done | cc |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 29 done | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 indeed | punct |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 done | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 done | obj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 done | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 done | aux:pass |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 everything | acl:relcl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux:pass |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 full | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the shops | of dragon poison and anti-dragon soap; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | could · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | do | past · passive | everything | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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