The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 93

Half an hour before he had been building with bricks in the nursery; and now--the streets were all fluttering with flags; every window was crowded with people waving handkerchiefs and scattering flowers; there were scarlet soldiers everywhere along the pavements, and all the bells of all the churches were ringing like mad, and like a great song to the music of their ringing he heard thousands of people shouting, "Long live Lionel!

Who acts: coach, streets, window, people, scarlet soldiers, bells · What happens: build, flutter, be, wave, scatter, ring · To what, where: hour, nursery, handkerchiefs, flowers, thousands, Long live 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 (coach, streets, window, people), 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	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 hour	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 building	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 building	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 building	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 building	aux
8	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hour	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 bricks	case
10	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 building	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 nursery	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nursery	det
13	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 building	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fluttering	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fluttering	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 fluttering	advmod
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 now	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 streets	det
19	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fluttering	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fluttering	aux
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 fluttering	advmod
22	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hour	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 flags	case
24	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fluttering	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 crowded	punct
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 window	det
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crowded	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crowded	cop
29	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fluttering	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 people	case
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 crowded	obl
32	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 people	acl
33	handkerchiefs	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 waving	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 scattering	cc
35	scattering	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 waving	conj
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 scattering	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 were	punct
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 were	expl
39	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crowded	parataxis
40	scarlet	scarlet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 soldiers	amod
41	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 were	nsubj
42	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 pavements	advmod
43	along	along	ADP	_	45 pavements	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 pavements	det
45	pavements	pavement	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 soldiers	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 ringing	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 ringing	cc
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 bells	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 bells	det
50	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 ringing	nsubj
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 churches	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 churches	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 churches	det
54	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 bells	nmod
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 ringing	aux
56	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 soldiers	parataxis
57	like	like	ADP	_	58 mad	case
58	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 ringing	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 song	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 song	cc
61	like	like	ADP	_	64 song	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 song	det
63	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 song	amod
64	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 ringing	conj
65	to	to	ADP	_	67 music	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 music	det
67	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 song	nmod
68	of	of	ADP	_	70 ringing	case
69	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 ringing	nmod:poss
70	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 music	nmod
71	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 heard	nsubj
72	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 ringing	acl:relcl
73	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 heard	obj
74	of	of	ADP	_	75 people	case
75	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 thousands	nmod
76	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	75 people	acl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 Lionel	punct
78	"	"	PUNCT	_	81 Lionel	punct
79	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 Lionel	amod
80	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 Lionel	amod
81	Lionel	lionel	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 shouting	obl
82	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 hour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · progressive	coach	half hour not said here	the nursery		with bricks	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hour=Theme with brick=Source
2	flutter	past · progressive	the streets			now	with flags; all property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	every window				with people; crowded property	tree rules
4	wave	gerund	people not said here	handkerchiefs				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
5	scatter	gerund	people not said here	flowers				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
6	be	past	scarlet soldiers along the pavements		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ring	past · progressive	all bells of all churches				like mad	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hear	past	coach	thousands of people				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus
9	shout speech: express	gerund	people not said here	Long live Lionel				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	ring		bells = bell					nom ringing «event 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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