The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 97

And she tried to turn off the sunshine, but the tap was out of order, and that was why there had been so much hot weather, and why the dragons had been able to be hatched.

Who acts: Effie, tap, that, dragons · What happens: try, turn off, be, hatch · To what, where: sunshine, order, hot weather

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 (Effie, tap, that, 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	_	3 tried	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 turn	mark
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 turn	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sunshine	det
8	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 order	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 order	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tap	det
12	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 order	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 order	cop
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 order	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 order	case
16	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 why	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 why	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 weather	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 been	expl
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 been	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 weather	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 hot	advmod
27	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 weather	amod
28	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 able	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 able	cc
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	36 able	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dragons	det
33	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 able	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 able	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 able	cop
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	39 hatched	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 hatched	aux:pass
39	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 able	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	Effie				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	turn off not said to happen	to-infinitive	Effie not said here	the sunshine			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sunshine=Patient
3	is	past	the tap		order		tree rules
4	is	past	that			why property	tree rules
5	is a	participle		hot weather			tree rules
6	is	past · perfect	the dragons			able property	tree rules
7	hatch	to-infinitive · passive	the dragons not said here				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»

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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