The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 69

Up to now the children had only seen the most beautiful and wondrous things, but now they began to be sorry they had done what they were told not to, and the difference between "lawn" and "grass" did not seem so great as it had at Forest Hill.

Who acts: children, difference, grass · What happens: see, begin, be, do, not tell, not seem · To what, where: beautiful things, children, Forest Hill · 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, difference, grass), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	8 seen	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 Up	fixed
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 seen	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 seen	advmod
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 beautiful	advmod
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wondrous	cc
13	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beautiful	conj
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 began	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 sorry	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sorry	cop
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 began	xcomp
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 sorry	ccomp
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 told	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux:pass
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 done	advcl
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 told	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	30 not	fixed
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 seem	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 seem	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 difference	det
35	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seem	nsubj
36	between	between	ADP	_	38 lawn	case
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 lawn	punct
38	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 difference	nmod
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 difference	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 grass	cc
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 grass	punct
42	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seem	nsubj
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 grass	punct
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 seem	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 seem	advmod
46	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	parataxis
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 great	advmod
48	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 seem	xcomp
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 had	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 had	nsubj
51	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 great	advcl
52	at	at	ADP	_	54 Hill	case
53	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Hill	compound
54	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 had	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect · passive		the beautiful things		now		tree rules
2	begin	past	children = child			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				sorry property	tree rules
4	do	past · perfect	children = child					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not tell speech: assert	past · passive		children = child				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic
6	not seem	past · do-support	the difference between lawn				great property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	grass		Forest Hill			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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