The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 14

Then they called for camphor and bitter apple and oil of lavender and yellow soap and borax; and some of the dwarfs even started to get these things, but long before any of them could get to the chemist's, all was over.

Who acts: dwarfs, some, any, all · What happens: call, start, get, be · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dwarfs, some, any, all), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 camphor	case
5	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 apple	cc
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 apple	amod
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camphor	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 oil	cc
10	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camphor	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 lavender	case
12	lavender	lavender	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 oil	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 soap	cc
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 soap	amod
15	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lavender	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 borax	cc
17	borax	borax	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 soap	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 started	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 started	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 started	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 dwarfs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dwarfs	det
23	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 some	nmod
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 started	advmod
25	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 started	xcomp
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 things	det
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 get	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 long	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 long	cc
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 started	advmod
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 get	mark
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 get	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 any	nmod
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 get	aux
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 long	advcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 chemist	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 chemist	det
41	chemist	chemist	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obl
42	's	's	PART	_	41 chemist	case
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 over	punct
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 over	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 over	cop
46	over	over	ADV	_	25 started	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	dwarfs = dwarf		then	for camphor and bitter apple and oil of lavender and yellow soap and borax	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for camphor=Recipient
2	start	past	some			long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	some not said here	this things			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	get	could	any			to the chemist result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to chemist=Result
5	is	past	all			over property	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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