The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 118

So the Queen drank the stuff in the pot, which was quite cool by this time, and she went out under the fringe of snakes, and they all behaved like good Sunday-school children.

Who acts: Queen, pot · What happens: drink, be, go out, behave · To what, where: stuff, pot, fringe, snakes

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, pot), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 drank	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stuff	det
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pot	det
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuff	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cool	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cool	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cool	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 cool	advmod
14	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pot	amod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cool	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 went	compound:prt
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 fringe	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fringe	det
25	fringe	fringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 snakes	case
27	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fringe	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 behaved	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 behaved	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 behaved	nsubj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 behaved	nsubj:pass
32	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drank	parataxis
33	like	like	ADP	_	38 children	case
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 children	amod
35	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 school	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Sunday	punct
37	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 children	compound
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 behaved	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the Queen	the stuff	the pot			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient
2	is	past	the pot			time	cool property	tree rules
3	go out	past	Queen		the fringe of snakes			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	behave	participle · passive		snakes = snake			like good school children	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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