The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 40

George was rather glad too, though neither of the children felt at all sure of their welcome, especially as their feet were wet, and they were bringing a strange dragon home with them.

Who acts: George, neither, feet · What happens: be, feel, bring, welcome · To what, where: all, strange dragon

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 (George, neither, feet), 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	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 glad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 glad	advmod
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 glad	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 felt	mark
8	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	12 felt	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 children	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 neither	nmod
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 felt	obl
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 welcome	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 welcome	nmod:poss
18	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sure	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wet	punct
20	especially	especially	ADV	_	23 feet	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wet	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wet	cop
25	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bringing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bringing	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bringing	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bringing	aux
30	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 wet	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dragon	det
32	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dragon	amod
33	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bringing	obj
34	home	home	ADV	_	30 bringing	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bringing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	George			glad property	tree rules
2	feel	past	neither		all	sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	George's feet			wet property	tree rules
4	bring	past · progressive	feet = foot	a strange dragon		with George; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dragon=Destination
5	welcome		George				nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=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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