The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 85

And now they were in a sort of room cut out of the solid rock, and all along one side of the room were taps, and all the taps were labeled with china labels like you see in baths.

Who acts: dragons, sort room, you · What happens: be, cut out, label, see · To what, where: sort room, solid rock, taps, china labels, baths

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 (dragons, sort room, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 room	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 room	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 room	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 room	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taps	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 room	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	15 rock	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 rock	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rock	det
14	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rock	amod
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 side	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 side	cc
18	all	all	ADV	_	21 side	advmod
19	along	along	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 side	nummod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 room	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taps	cop
26	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 labeled	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 labeled	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 taps	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 taps	det
31	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 labeled	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 labeled	aux:pass
33	labeled	label	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 taps	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 labels	case
35	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 labels	compound
36	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 labeled	obl
37	like	like	SCONJ	_	39 see	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 see	nsubj
39	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 labels	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 baths	case
41	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 see	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 taps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dragons = dragon		a sort room and one side of the room	now		tree rules
2	cut out	participle	a sort room and one side of the room not said here	the solid rock				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector rock=Eventuality
3	is a	past	a sort room and one side of the room	taps				tree rules
4	label	past · passive		all taps			with china labels	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with label=Theme
5	see	present	you	china labels not said here	baths			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer label=Stimulus

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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