The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 98

But after a time they got very tired of it all: They wanted to see the flowers and trees growing in the fields, and to see the pretty sunshine out of doors, and not just through glass windows and patent dragonproof curtains.

Who acts: police, flowers · What happens: get, want, see, grow · To what, where: glass windows, flowers, fields, pretty sunshine, doors

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 (police, flowers), 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	_	6 got	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tired	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 it	det
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
13	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flowers	det
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 see	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trees	cc
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flowers	conj
21	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 flowers	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 fields	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fields	det
24	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 growing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sunshine	det
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sunshine	amod
31	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	34 doors	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 doors	case
34	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 see	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 windows	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 windows	cc
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 windows	advmod
38	just	just	ADV	_	41 windows	advmod
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 windows	case
40	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 windows	compound
41	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 curtains	cc
43	patent	patent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 curtains	amod
44	dragonproof	dragonproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 curtains	amod
45	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 windows	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	police		glass windows and patent dragonproof curtains	time	tired property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through window=Destination
2	want	past	police					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	police not said here	the flowers and trees				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
4	grow	gerund	the flowers and trees not said here		the fields			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location
5	see	to-infinitive	police not said here	the pretty sunshine	doors			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunshine=Stimulus

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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