The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 124

So then they turned off the tap named "Waste," and they half-turned off the one labeled "Sunshine"--it was broken, so that they could not turn it off altogether--and they turned on "Fair to moderate" and "Showery" and both taps stuck, so that they could not be turned off, which accounts for our climate.

Who acts: dragons, tap, our · What happens: turn off, name, label, break, not turn off, turn on · To what, where: tap, Waste, one, Sunshine, 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 (dragons, tap, our), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turned	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tap	det
7	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
8	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tap	acl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Waste	punct
10	Waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 named	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	nsubj
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 turned	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 half	punct
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 turned	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 turned	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obj
21	labeled	label	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 one	acl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Sunshine	punct
23	Sunshine	Sunshine	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 labeled	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Sunshine	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 broken	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 broken	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 broken	aux:pass
28	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 turned	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turn	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 turn	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turn	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 turn	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 turn	advmod
35	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 broken	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turn	obj
37	off	off	ADP	_	35 turn	compound:prt
38	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	35 turn	advmod
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 turned	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 turned	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 turned	nsubj
42	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	parataxis
43	on	on	ADP	_	42 turned	compound:prt
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Fair	punct
45	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 turned	xcomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 moderate	mark
47	moderate	moderate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 Fair	xcomp
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Fair	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 Showery	cc
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 Showery	punct
51	Showery	showery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Fair	conj
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 Showery	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 stuck	cc
54	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	55 taps	det
55	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 stuck	nsubj
56	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 turned	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 turned	punct
58	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	64 turned	mark
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 so	fixed
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 turned	nsubj
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 turned	aux
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 turned	advmod
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 turned	aux:pass
64	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 turned	conj
65	off	off	ADP	_	64 turned	compound:prt
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 accounts	punct
67	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	68 accounts	det
68	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 turned	obl
69	for	for	ADP	_	71 climate	case
70	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 climate	nmod:poss
71	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 accounts	nmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	past	dragons = dragon	the tap		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tap=Patient
2	name	participle	the tap not said here	Waste				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	turn off	participle	dragons = dragon	the one				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	label	participle		the one not said here	Sunshine			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sunshine=Destination
5	break	past · passive		Waste				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	not turn off	could	dragons = dragon	Waste			altogether property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	turn on	past	dragons = dragon				fair property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	moderate in a quote	to-infinitive	dragons = dragon not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	not turn off	could · passive		dragons = dragon			which accounts for our climate obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
10	acclimate		our					nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=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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