The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 119

Now, the sum was this: "If the whirlpools stop and the tide goes down once in every twenty-four hours, and they do it five minutes earlier every twenty-four hours, and if the dragon sleeps every day, and he does it three minutes later every day, in how many days and at what time in the day will the tide go down three minutes before the dragon falls asleep?"

Who acts: sum, whirlpools, tide, sums, dragon, boy · What happens: be, stop, go down, do, sleep, fall · To what, where: this, tide

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sum, whirlpools, tide, sums), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 this	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sum	det
4	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 this	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 this	cop
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 stop	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whirlpools	det
11	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stop	nsubj
12	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 this	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 goes	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tide	det
15	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goes	nsubj
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 goes	advmod
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 goes	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 hours	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 hours	det
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 four	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 twenty	punct
23	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hours	nummod
24	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 goes	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	obj
30	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 minutes	nummod
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 earlier	obl:unmarked
32	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 do	advmod
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 hours	det
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 four	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 twenty	punct
36	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 hours	nummod
37	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	obl:unmarked
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 go	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 go	cc
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 sleeps	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 dragon	det
42	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sleeps	nsubj
43	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	71 go	advcl
44	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	45 day	det
45	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sleeps	obl:unmarked
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 does	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 does	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 does	nsubj
49	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 sleeps	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 does	obj
51	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 minutes	nummod
52	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 later	obl:unmarked
53	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 does	advmod
54	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	55 day	det
55	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 does	obl:unmarked
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 days	punct
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 days	case
58	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	59 many	advmod
59	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 days	amod
60	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 go	nsubj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 time	cc
62	at	at	ADP	_	64 time	case
63	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	64 time	det
64	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 days	conj
65	in	in	ADP	_	67 day	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 day	det
67	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 time	nmod
68	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 go	aux
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 tide	det
70	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 go	nsubj
71	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stop	conj
72	down	down	ADV	_	71 go	advmod
73	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	74 minutes	nummod
74	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 go	obl:unmarked
75	before	before	SCONJ	_	78 falls	mark
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 dragon	det
77	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 falls	nsubj
78	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	71 go	advcl
79	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 falls	xcomp
80	?	?	PUNCT	_	71 go	punct
81	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 this	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the sum	this	now		tree rules
2	stop a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the whirlpools				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	go down in a quote	present	the tide		hour	down, once property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	do in a quote	present	sums = sum	tide	hour	early property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	sleep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the dragon		day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do in a quote	present	boy	tide	day	late property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	go down in a quote	future	many days and what time in the day		minute	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	fall in a quote	present	the dragon			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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