The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 21

So the children told him all about it; he turned over in his marble and leaned on one elbow to listen.

Who acts: children, George · What happens: tell, turn over, learn, listen · To what, where: George, marble, one elbow · 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, George), 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 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 it	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
12	over	over	ADP	_	11 turned	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 marble	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 marble	nmod:poss
15	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 leaned	cc
17	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 elbow	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 elbow	nummod
20	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaned	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 listen	mark
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 leaned	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the children	George		about matter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about it=Topic
2	turn over	past	George		George's marble		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	learn	past	George not said here		one elbow		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	to-infinitive	George not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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