The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 127

The reason for shooting him stopped yesterday--I heard Father say so--so it wouldn't be fair, anyhow.

Who acts: reason, I, Father, grouse · What happens: shoot, stop, hear, say, not be · To what, where: reason · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (reason, I, Father, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 shooting	mark
4	shooting	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 reason	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shooting	obj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obl:unmarked
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
11	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	ccomp
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 fair	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 fair	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fair	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fair	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fair	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 fair	cop
20	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stopped	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 anyhow	punct
22	anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	_	20 fair	discourse
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	gerund	the reason not said here	reason			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	stop	past	the reason		yesterday		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hear	past	I				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	Father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is	would	grouse			fair property	tree rules

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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