The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 35
All their relations had colds in their heads, so Jane and George were allowed to go out into the garden alone to let off their firework.
Who acts: relations, Jane · What happens: have, allow, go out, let off · To what, where: colds, heads, Jane, garden, firework
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 (relations, Jane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:632): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 relations | det:predet |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 relations | nmod:poss |
| 3 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heads | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 colds | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 allowed | punct |
| 10 | so | so | CCONJ | _ | 15 allowed | cc |
| 11 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 George | cc |
| 13 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jane | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 allowed | aux:pass |
| 15 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allowed | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 let | mark |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | advcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 let | compound:prt |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 firework | nmod:poss |
| 27 | firework | firework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 let | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | fireworks's relations | colds | fireworks's heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient | |||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | Jane and George | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jane and George not said here | the garden | alone, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | let off | to-infinitive | Jane and George not said here | George's firework | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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