The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 125

So then the sportsman had to confess that he wanted the firework to kill the white grouse with; and, when they came to look, there was the white grouse himself, sitting in the snow, looking quite pale and careworn, and waiting anxiously for the matter to be decided one way or the other.

Who acts: sportsman, fireworks, white grouse · What happens: have, confess, want, kill, come, look · To what, where: firework, white grouse, snow, one way

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 (sportsman, fireworks, white grouse), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sportsman	det
4	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 confess	mark
7	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 wanted	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 confess	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 firework	det
12	firework	firework	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 kill	mark
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 firework	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grouse	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grouse	amod
17	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kill	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	14 kill	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 came	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 came	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 look	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grouse	det
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grouse	amod
32	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 was	nsubj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 sitting	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sitting	punct
35	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 grouse	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 snow	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 snow	det
38	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sitting	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looking	punct
40	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 sitting	conj
41	quite	quite	ADV	_	42 pale	advmod
42	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 looking	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 careworn	cc
44	careworn	careworn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 pale	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 waiting	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 waiting	cc
47	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 sitting	conj
48	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	47 waiting	advmod
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 matter	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 matter	det
51	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 waiting	obl
52	to	to	PART	_	54 decided	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 decided	aux:pass
54	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 waiting	advcl
55	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 way	nummod
56	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 decided	obl:unmarked
57	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 other	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 other	det
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 way	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the sportsman			then		tree rules
2	confess	to-infinitive	the sportsman not said here					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	sportsman	the firework				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot firework=Theme
4	kill	to-infinitive	sportsman not said here	the white grouse				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grouse=Theme
5	come	past	fireworks = firework					tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	fireworks = firework not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	be	past	the white grouse		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sit	gerund	sportsman	the white grouse not said here	the snow			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent grouse=Theme in snow=Location
9	look	gerund	sportsman not said here				pale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	careworn	participle	sportsman not said here					tree rules
11	wait	gerund	sportsman not said here				for the matter; anxiously property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	decide	to-infinitive · passive	sportsman not said here	one way				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»

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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