The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 92

But the size Effie was most afraid of was about as big as your dining room, and that size ate little girls and boys.

Who acts: size · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: little girls

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 afraid	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 size	det
3	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 afraid	nsubj
4	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 size	appos
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 afraid	amod
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 big	mark
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 big	cop
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 big	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 big	advmod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 afraid	ccomp
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 room	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 room	nmod:poss
15	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	compound
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 big	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ate	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ate	cc
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 size	det
20	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ate	nsubj
21	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	advcl
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girls	amod
23	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ate	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 boys	cc
25	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 girls	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the size		afraid property	tree rules
2	is	past	the size not said here		as your dining room; about, big property	tree rules
3	eat	past	that size	little girls and boys		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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