The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 19

And while George was explaining to the collector that they would really rather not, Jane opened the blue folds of the butterfly net, and asked the moth quietly if it would please step outside for a moment.

Who acts: George, Jane, silence · What happens: explain, open, ask, step · To what, where: collector, blue folds, moth

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 (George, Jane, silence), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 explaining	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 explaining	mark
3	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 explaining	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 explaining	aux
5	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 collector	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 collector	det
8	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explaining	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 would	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 would	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 explaining	aux
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 rather	advmod
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 opened	advmod
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 rather	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rather	punct
16	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 opened	nsubj
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 would	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 folds	det
19	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 folds	amod
20	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 opened	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 net	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 net	det
23	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 net	compound
24	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 folds	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 opened	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 moth	det
29	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	obj
30	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	27 asked	advmod
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 step	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 step	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 step	aux
34	please	please	INTJ	_	35 step	discourse
35	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asked	ccomp
36	outside	outside	ADV	_	35 step	advmod
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 moment	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 moment	det
39	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 step	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 explaining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	would · past	George		the collector			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to collector=Recipient
2	open	past	Jane	the blue folds of the butterfly net				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fold=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Jane not said here	the moth			quietly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent moth=Recipient clause=Topic
4	step a condition, not said to happen	would	silence			moment	outside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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