The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 90

Another size ate nothing but lilies of the valley, and a third size ate only Prime Ministers if they were to be had, and, if not, would feed freely on servants in livery.

Who acts: size, third size · What happens: eat, have, feed · To what, where: nothing, Prime Ministers, sizes

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 (size, third size), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 size	det
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 ate	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 lilies	cc
6	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nothing	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 valley	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valley	det
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lilies	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ate	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 size	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 size	amod
14	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ate	nsubj
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 Ministers	advmod
17	Prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Ministers	amod
18	Ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ate	obj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
22	to	to	PART	_	24 had	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	aux:pass
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ate	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feed	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 not	mark
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 feed	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 not	punct
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 feed	aux
32	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	conj
33	freely	freely	ADV	_	32 feed	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 servants	case
35	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 feed	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 livery	case
37	livery	livery	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 servants	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	another size	nothing		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	eat	past	a third size	Prime Ministers		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Patient
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		sizes = size		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	feed	would	another size not said here		on servants in livery; freely property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on servant=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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