The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 89

The largest kind ate elephants as long as there were any, and then went on with horses and cows.

Who acts: largest kind, any · What happens: eat, be, go on · To what, where: elephants

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 (largest kind, any), 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 kind	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 kind	amod
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ate	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 long	advcl
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 went	advmod
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 horses	case
18	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 went	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cows	cc
20	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 horses	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the largest kind	elephants			long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Patient
2	be	past	any		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go on	past	the largest kind not said here			then	with horses and cows	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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