The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 49

Of course some grown-up or other noticed at once that the boots of George and Jane were wet and muddy, and that they had both been sitting down in a very damp place, so they were sent to bed immediately.

Who acts: boots · What happens: grow up, notice, be, sit down, send · To what, where: some, damp place, boots, bed

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 (boots), 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	Of	of	SCONJ	_	9 noticed	mark
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 noticed	nsubj:pass
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 noticed	parataxis
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 other	cc
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	conj
9	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 noticed	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 wet	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boots	det
14	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wet	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 George	case
16	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 boots	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Jane	cc
18	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 George	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wet	cop
20	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noticed	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 muddy	cc
22	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wet	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sitting	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sitting	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sitting	aux
28	both	both	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 sitting	aux
30	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 noticed	parataxis
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 sitting	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 place	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 place	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 damp	advmod
35	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 place	amod
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sent	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	41 sent	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 sent	nsubj:pass
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sent	aux:pass
41	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 noticed	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 bed	case
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sent	obl
44	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	41 sent	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	notice	participle · passive		some			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	is	past	the boots of George and Jane			wet property	tree rules
4	be		the boots of George and Jane not said here				tree rules
5	sit down	past · perfect · progressive			a damp place	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
6	send	past · passive		boots = boot	bed	immediately property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bed=Destination

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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