The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 86

And as they could both read words of two syllables or even three sometimes, they understood at once that they had gotten to the place where the weather is turned on from.

Who acts: dragons · What happens: read, understand, get, turn on, word · To what, where: words, weather, two syllables

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), 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	_	6 read	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 read	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 syllables	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 syllables	nummod
10	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 words	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 three	cc
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 three	advmod
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 syllables	conj
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 read	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 understood	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 understood	nsubj
17	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 read	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 understood	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 gotten	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gotten	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gotten	aux
23	gotten	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 understood	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 place	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gotten	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 turned	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 weather	det
29	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 turned	aux:pass
31	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 place	acl:relcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 turned	compound:prt
33	from	from	ADP	_	32 on	fixed
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	could	dragons = dragon	words of two syllables	both, sometimes property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	understand	past	dragons = dragon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	past · perfect	dragons = dragon		to the place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
4	turn on	present · passive		the weather		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	word			two syllables		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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