The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 114

Now, by this time the children were so cold, so cold, so very, very cold, that they had forgotten everything but that, and they could say nothing else.

Who acts: children · What happens: be, forget, say · To what, where: everything, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cold	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cold	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cold	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cold	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 cold	advmod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cold	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 cold	advmod
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cold	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cold	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 cold	advmod
16	very	very	ADV	_	19 cold	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cold	punct
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 cold	advmod
19	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cold	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forgotten	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 forgotten	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 forgotten	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forgotten	aux
24	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cold	parataxis
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 forgotten	obj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 that	cc
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 everything	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 say	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 say	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 say	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 say	aux
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 forgotten	conj
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 say	obj
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 nothing	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children		now; time	cold property	tree rules
2	be		the children not said here				tree rules
3	be		the children not said here				tree rules
4	forget	past · perfect	children = child	everything			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	could	children = child	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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