The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 29

He was really very poorly, so that fireworks would have been in the worst possible taste, even at Land's End or in the Isle of Man, whilst in Forest Hill, which was the home of Jane and George, anything of the kind was quite out of the question.

Who acts: Guy, Forest Hill, anything · What happens: be, have · To what, where: worst possible taste, home, Jane, question

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 (Guy, Forest Hill, anything), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poorly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poorly	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 poorly	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 poorly	advmod
5	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 would	punct
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 would	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 would	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 poorly	advcl
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 would	xcomp
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 taste	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 taste	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 taste	det
15	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 taste	amod
16	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 taste	amod
17	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 End	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	23 End	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 End	case
21	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 End	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Land	case
23	End	End	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 taste	parataxis
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 Isle	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 Isle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Isle	det
27	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 End	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Man	case
29	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Isle	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Hill	punct
31	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	34 Hill	mark
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 Hill	case
33	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Hill	compound
34	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 End	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 home	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 home	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 home	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 home	det
39	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Hill	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Jane	case
41	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 home	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 George	cc
43	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Jane	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 anything	punct
45	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	54 question	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 kind	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 kind	det
48	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 anything	nmod
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 question	cop
50	quite	quite	ADV	_	54 question	advmod
51	out	out	ADP	_	54 question	case
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 question	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 question	det
54	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Jane	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poorly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Guy			poorly property	tree rules
2	have	infinitive	Guy not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle			the worst possible taste		tree rules
4	is a	past	Forest Hill	the home		of Jane and George	tree rules
5	is	past	anything	Jane and George not said here	the question		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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