The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

So she covered St. George with the veil, and Harry rubbed off as much as he could of the dragon poison onto St. George's armor, so as to make everything quite safe for him.

Who acts: size, Harry · What happens: cover, rub off, make · To what, where: George, much, everything

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 (size, Harry), 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	_	3 covered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	nsubj
3	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 George	nmod:desc
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 veil	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 veil	det
8	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rubbed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rubbed	cc
11	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rubbed	nsubj
12	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 rubbed	compound:prt
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rubbed	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 could	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 much	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 poison	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 poison	det
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poison	compound
22	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 could	obl
23	onto	onto	ADP	_	27 armor	case
24	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 George	nmod:desc
25	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 armor	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 George	case
27	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poison	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 make	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 make	mark
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rubbed	advcl
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 make	obj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 safe	advmod
35	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 make	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 safe	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cover	past	size		George St.	with the veil	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent george=Destination with veil=Theme
2	rub off	past	Harry	much			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	Harry not said here	everything		safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product

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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