The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 117

I had five of father's revolver cartridges, but they were taken away the day Nurse turned out my pockets to see if I had taken the knob of the bathroom door by mistake."

Who acts: I, Nurse · What happens: have, take away, turn out, see, take · To what, where: five, George, pockets, knob

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Nurse), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 cartridges	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 revolver	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 father	case
7	revolver	revolver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cartridges	compound
8	cartridges	cartridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 five	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 taken	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux:pass
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 taken	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl:unmarked
17	Nurse	Nurse	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 turned	nsubj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 turned	compound:prt
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pockets	nmod:poss
21	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turned	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turned	advcl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 taken	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 taken	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taken	aux
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 see	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 knob	det
29	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
32	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	compound
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knob	nmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 mistake	case
35	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	five of revolver cartridges			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Patient
2	take away	past · passive		George		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	turn out	past	Nurse	my pockets	day		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pocket=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	Nurse not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	take a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	the knob of the bathroom door		by mistake	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knob=Theme

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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