The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 99
And they wanted to play on the grass, which they were not allowed to do in the electric lamp-lighted garden because of the night-dew.
Who acts: police, grass · What happens: want, play, not allow, do, light · To what, where: grass, electric lighted garden
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, grass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wanted | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 play | mark |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 grass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grass | det |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 allowed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 allowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 allowed | advmod |
| 14 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 grass | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowed | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 19 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 garden | amod |
| 20 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lighted | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 lamp | punct |
| 22 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 garden | amod |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 24 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 29 dew | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 because | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dew | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dew | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 night | punct |
| 29 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | police | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | police not said here | the grass | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not allow | past · passive | the grass | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the grass not said here | the electric lighted garden | because the night dew | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | light | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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