The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 99

This great slide is made for the convenience of the Polar bears, who, during the winter months, get their food from the Army and Navy Stores--and it is the most perfect slide in the world.

Who acts: slide · What happens: make, get, be · To what, where: great slide, food, Army, perfect slide, world

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 (slide), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 slide	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slide	amod
3	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 convenience	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 convenience	det
8	convenience	convenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bears	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bears	det
11	Polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bears	amod
12	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 convenience	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 months	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 months	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 months	punct
16	during	during	ADP	_	19 months	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 months	det
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 months	compound
19	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bears	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
21	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 food	nmod:poss
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 Army	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Army	det
26	Army	Army	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Stores	cc
28	Navy	navy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Stores	compound
29	Stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Army	conj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 slide	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 slide	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 slide	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 slide	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 slide	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 perfect	advmod
36	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 slide	amod
37	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 slide	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		this great slide		for the convenience of the Polar bears and the winter months	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for convenience=Asset
2	get	infinitive		George's food	the Army and Navy Stores		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from army=Source
3	is a	present	slide	the perfect slide	the world		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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