The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 115

When Effie had cleaned it with a bit of her skirt--for curiously enough both the children had come out without pocket handkerchiefs--she found that the label said "Waste."

Who acts: children, Effie, label · What happens: clean, come out, find, say · To what, where: Effie, Waste · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, Effie, label), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cleaned	advmod
2	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cleaned	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cleaned	aux
4	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cleaned	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bit	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaned	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 skirt	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skirt	nmod:poss
11	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 enough	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 enough	case
14	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	15 enough	advmod
15	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cleaned	conj
16	both	both	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc:preconj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 children	det
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 enough	parataxis
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	without	without	ADP	_	24 handkerchiefs	case
23	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 handkerchiefs	compound
24	handkerchiefs	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	obl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cleaned	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 said	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 label	det
30	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 found	advcl
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Waste	punct
33	Waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cleaned	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cleaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clean	past · perfect · passive		Effie	with a bit of Effie's skirt	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Patient
2	come out	past · perfect	the children		without pocket handkerchiefs; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	find	past	Effie			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the label	Waste		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent waste=Topic

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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