The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 2

As you know, there are many St. George's churches, but fortunately they took the turning that leads to the right one, and went along in the bright sunlight, feeling very brave and adventurous.

Who acts: you, churches, hands, turning · What happens: know, be, take, lead, go along, feel · To what, where: turning, right one, bright sunlight

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 (you, churches, hands, turning), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 know	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 are	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 are	expl
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 George	amod
8	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 George	nmod:desc
9	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 churches	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 George	case
11	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 are	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
14	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 are	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 turning	det
18	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 leads	nsubj
20	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 turning	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 one	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leads	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
28	along	along	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 sunlight	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sunlight	det
31	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sunlight	amod
32	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 feeling	punct
34	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 went	advcl
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 brave	advmod
36	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 feeling	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 adventurous	cc
38	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 brave	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	does	present	many George St.'s churches			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	hands = hand	the turning			fortunately property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turning=Theme
4	lead	present	the turning		the right one			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to one=Patient
5	go along	past	hands = hand not said here			the bright sunlight	along property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location
6	feel	gerund	hands = hand not said here				brave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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