The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 4

Fortunately none of the dragons were just the right size for eating little boys and girls, or perhaps this story might have had to end here.

Who acts: none, right size, story · What happens: be, eat, have, end · To what, where: right size, little boys

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 (none, right size, story), 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	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	2 none	advmod
2	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 size	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dragons	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragons	det
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 none	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 size	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 size	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
12	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 size	acl
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boys	amod
14	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eating	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 girls	cc
16	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 boys	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 story	det
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	aux
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 size	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 end	mark
26	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 end	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 size	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	none	the right size			tree rules
2	eat	gerund	the right size not said here	little boys and girls			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	have	might · perfect	this story			perhaps property	tree rules
4	end	to-infinitive	this story not said here		here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/4/