The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 109

It would take years and years to bury them, and they could never be burnt now they are so soaking wet.

Who acts: It, dragons · What happens: take, bury, not burnt, soak · To what, where: dragons

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, dragons), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 years	cc
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 years	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bury	mark
8	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bury	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 burnt	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 burnt	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 burnt	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 burnt	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 burnt	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 burnt	aux:pass
16	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 take	parataxis
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 burnt	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 soaking	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 soaking	aux
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 soaking	advmod
21	soaking	soak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 burnt	ccomp
22	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 soaking	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	It		year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bury	to-infinitive		dragons = dragon			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	not burnt	could · passive		dragons = dragon	now		tree rules
4	soak	present · progressive	dragons = dragon			wet property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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