The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 166

And then, quite suddenly, a great Red Dragon came out of the book and spread vast scarlet wings and flew away across the garden to the far hills, and Lionel was left with the empty page before him, for the page was quite empty except for the green palm tree and the yellow desert, and the little streaks of red where the paintbrush had gone outside the pencil outline of the Red Dragon.

Who acts: great Red Dragon, page, little streaks · What happens: come out, spread, fly away, leave, be, go · To what, where: book, vast scarlet wings, garden, Lionel

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Red Dragon, page, little streaks), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 suddenly	advmod
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 suddenly	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Dragon	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Dragon	amod
9	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Dragon	flat
10	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 book	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 book	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 book	det
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spread	cc
17	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
18	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wings	amod
19	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wings	compound
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spread	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
24	across	across	ADP	_	26 garden	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 garden	det
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flew	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 hills	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hills	det
29	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hills	amod
30	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flew	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 left	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 left	cc
33	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 left	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 left	aux:pass
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 came	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 page	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 page	det
38	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 page	amod
39	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 left	obl
40	before	before	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 left	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 empty	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 empty	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 page	det
45	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 empty	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 empty	cop
47	quite	quite	ADV	_	48 empty	advmod
48	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 left	advcl
49	except	except	ADP	_	54 tree	case
50	for	for	ADP	_	54 tree	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 tree	det
52	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 tree	amod
53	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 tree	compound
54	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 empty	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 desert	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 desert	det
57	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 desert	amod
58	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 tree	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 gone	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 gone	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 streaks	det
62	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 streaks	amod
63	streaks	streak	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 gone	nsubj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 red	case
65	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 gone	obl
66	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	70 gone	advmod
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 paintbrush	det
68	paintbrush	paintbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 gone	nsubj
69	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 gone	aux
70	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 came	conj
71	outside	outside	ADP	_	74 outline	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 outline	det
73	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 outline	compound
74	outline	outline	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 gone	obl
75	of	of	ADP	_	78 Dragon	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 Dragon	det
77	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	78 Dragon	flat
78	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 outline	nmod
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	a great Red Dragon	the book		then	suddenly property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient book=Result
2	spread	past	a great Red Dragon not said here	vast scarlet wings				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	fly away	past	a great Red Dragon not said here		the garden		to the far hills result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result
4	leave	past · passive		Lionel		before PAGE	with the empty page	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme before he=Location
5	is	past	the page				except the green palm tree and the yellow desert; empty property	tree rules
6	go	past · perfect	the little streaks				of red; outside the pencil outline of the Red Dragon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of red=Initial_Location

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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