The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 65

And as he sailed hither and thither upon the high seas he saw from time to time the light that shone out to sea across the wild swirl of the Nine Whirlpools.

Who acts: Nigel, light · What happens: sail, see, shine out · To what, where: light, wild swirl

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 (Nigel, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:964): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 sailed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	advcl
5	hither	hither	ADV	_	4 sailed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thither	cc
7	thither	thither	ADV	_	5 hither	conj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 seas	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seas	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seas	amod
11	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sailed	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 time	case
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	nmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 light	det
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 shone	nsubj
21	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 light	acl:relcl
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 shone	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 sea	case
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shone	obl
25	across	across	ADP	_	28 swirl	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 swirl	det
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 swirl	amod
28	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shone	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Whirlpools	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Whirlpools	det
31	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 Whirlpools	nummod
32	Whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 swirl	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	Nigel				upon the high seas; hither property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Nigel	the light		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	shine out	past	the light		the wild swirl of the Nine Whirlpools		to sea; out property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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