The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 122

And he began to feel among the string and peppermints, and buttons and tops and nibs and chalk and foreign postage stamps in his knickerbocker pockets.

Who acts: squib · What happens: begin, feel · To what, where: buttons, string

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 (squib), 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 began	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feel	mark
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 string	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 string	det
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 peppermints	cc
10	peppermints	peppermint	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 string	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 buttons	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 buttons	cc
13	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tops	cc
15	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 buttons	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nibs	cc
17	nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 buttons	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chalk	cc
19	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buttons	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stamps	cc
21	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stamps	amod
22	postage	postage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stamps	compound
23	stamps	stamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 buttons	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 pockets	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pockets	nmod:poss
26	knickerbocker	knickerbocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pockets	compound
27	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stamps	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	squib	buttons and tops and nibs and chalk and foreign postage stamps in squib's knickerbocker pockets					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	squib not said here			the string and peppermints			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among string=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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