The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 92

And they saw their mother at home crying because her children had gone out in the dreadful, dangerous daylight, and she was afraid a dragon had eaten them.

Who acts: taps, home, children, St. · What happens: see, cry, go out, be, eat · To what, where: mother, home, dreadful dangerous daylight, dragon

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 (taps, home, children, St.), 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	_	3 saw	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 home	acl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 gone	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	20 daylight	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 daylight	det
17	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 daylight	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dreadful	punct
19	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 daylight	amod
20	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 afraid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 afraid	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 afraid	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	cop
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dragon	det
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eaten	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eaten	aux
29	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 afraid	ccomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eaten	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	taps = tap	taps's mother	home		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	gerund	home not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go out	past · perfect	St.'s children		the dreadful dangerous daylight		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	St.			afraid property	tree rules
5	eat	past · perfect · passive		a dragon			tree rules

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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