The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 65

The children saw other dragons in the air as they went, but the dragon who was as big as the dining room never stopped to speak to any of them, but just flew on quite steadily.

Who acts: children, dragons, dragon · What happens: see, go, be, not stop, speak, fly · To what, where: other dragons, air · 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, dragons, dragon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dragons	amod
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stopped	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 stopped	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dragon	det
15	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stopped	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 big	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 big	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 big	advmod
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dragon	acl:relcl
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
22	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 room	compound
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 big	obl
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 stopped	advmod
25	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 speak	mark
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stopped	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 any	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 speak	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 any	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flew	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 flew	cc
34	just	just	ADV	_	35 flew	advmod
35	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
36	on	on	ADV	_	35 flew	advmod
37	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 steadily	advmod
38	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	35 flew	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the children	other dragons	the air		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus
2	go	past	dragons = dragon				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the dragon			as the dining room; big property	tree rules
4	not stop	past	the dragon				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the dragon not said here			to any	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to any=Co-Agent
6	fly	past				steadily property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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