The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 118

The tap was very stiff from not having been used for such a long time, but together they managed to turn it on, and then ran to the mirror to see what happened.

Who acts: tap, taps · What happens: be, not use, manage, turn on, run, see · To what, where: Rain, mirror · 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 (tap, taps), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tap	det
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stiff	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 stiff	advmod
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 used	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 used	advmod
8	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 used	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 used	aux:pass
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stiff	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 time	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 managed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 managed	cc
18	together	together	ADV	_	20 managed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 managed	nsubj
20	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 turn	mark
22	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 managed	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turn	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	22 turn	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ran	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 ran	advmod
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 mirror	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mirror	det
31	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ran	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ran	advcl
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 happened	nsubj
35	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 see	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stiff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tap				stiff property	tree rules
2	not use	gerund · perfect · passive	the tap not said here			time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»
3	manage	past	taps = tap				together property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	turn on	to-infinitive	taps = tap not said here	Rain				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	run	past			the mirror	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mirror=Destination
6	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	happen	past						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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