The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 31

They woke him up over the engineers' strike, and he came to talk to me.

Who acts: Things, Andrew, engineers · What happens: wake up, come, talk, strike · To what, where: Andrew, strike, me

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 (Things, Andrew, engineers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 woke	compound:prt
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 strike	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 engineers	det
7	engineers	engineer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 strike	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 engineers	case
9	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 talk	mark
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 talk	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	wake up	past	Things = thing	Andrew		the engineers's strike	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	come	past	Andrew				tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive	Andrew not said here		me		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
4	strike		the engineers				nom strike «act 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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