The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 129

The sportsman said nothing, only he shook his fist at Jane, and then he got on the slide and tried to go toward the Crystal Palace--which was not easy, because that way is uphill.

Who acts: sportsman, way · What happens: say, shake, get, try, go, not be · To what, where: nothing, fist, Jane, slide, Crystal Palace · 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 (sportsman, way), 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 sportsman	det
2	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shook	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 shook	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shook	nsubj
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fist	nmod:poss
10	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shook	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Jane	case
12	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shook	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 got	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 slide	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 slide	det
20	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tried	cc
22	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tried	xcomp
25	toward	toward	ADP	_	28 Palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Palace	det
27	Crystal	Crystal	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Palace	compound
28	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 easy	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 easy	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 easy	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 easy	advmod
33	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 go	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 uphill	punct
35	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 uphill	mark
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 way	det
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 uphill	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 uphill	cop
39	uphill	uphill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 easy	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sportsman	nothing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	shake	past	sportsman	sportsman's fist	Jane			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fist=Theme at jane=Trajectory
3	get	past	sportsman		the slide	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on slide=Source
4	try	past	sportsman not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	sportsman not said here		the Crystal Palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward palace=Initial_Location
6	not is	past					easy property	tree rules
7	is	present	that way				uphill 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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