The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 37

It was dark in the garden, but the fireworks all about made it seem very gay, and though the children were cold they were quite sure that they were enjoying themselves.

Who acts: sealskin, it, children · What happens: be, make, seem, enjoy · To what, where: garden, fireworks, children

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 (sealskin, it, children), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dark	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fireworks	det
10	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obl
11	all	all	ADV	_	10 fireworks	advmod
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seem	nsubj
15	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	ccomp
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 gay	advmod
17	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seem	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sure	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sure	cc
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 cold	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cold	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cold	cop
24	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sure	advcl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sure	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sure	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 sure	advmod
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dark	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 enjoying	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 enjoying	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 enjoying	aux
32	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sure	advcl
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 enjoying	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sealskin		the garden	dark property	tree rules
2	make	past	sealskin not said here	the fireworks		about property	tree rules
3	seem	present	it			gay property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the children			cold property	tree rules
5	is	past	children = child			sure property	tree rules
6	enjoy	past · progressive	children = child	children = child			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus

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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