The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

And they could see that it was still broad daylight, and no dragons had gone to bed yet.

Who acts: parts, network, dragons · What happens: see, be, go · To what, where: broad daylight, bed · 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 (parts, network, 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	_	4 see	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 daylight	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 daylight	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 daylight	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 broad	advmod
9	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 daylight	amod
10	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 dragons	det
14	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 see	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 gone	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	could	parts = part				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	network	broad daylight			tree rules
3	go	past · perfect	no dragons		bed	yet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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