The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 91

Another size lived on bricks, and three of them ate two thirds of the South Lambeth Infirmary in one afternoon.

Who acts: size, three · What happens: live, eat · To what, where: bricks, two thirds

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, three), 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 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 bricks	case
5	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ate	cc
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ate	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 three	nmod
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thirds	nummod
13	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ate	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 Infirmary	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Infirmary	det
16	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lambeth	compound
17	Lambeth	Lambeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Infirmary	compound
18	Infirmary	Infirmary	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thirds	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 afternoon	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 afternoon	nummod
21	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	another size			bricks			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brick=Location
2	eat	past	three of sizes	two thirds of the Lambeth Infirmary			afternoon		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=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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