The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 68

But when the dawn came he saw the Lone Tower standing dark against the pink and primrose of the East, and about its base the sullen swirl of black water, and he heard the wonderful roar of it.

Who acts: dawn, Nigel, Lone Tower, roar · What happens: come, see, stand, hear, roar · To what, where: Lone Tower, pink, wonderful roar

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 (dawn, Nigel, Lone Tower, roar), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dawn	det
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tower	det
9	Lone	Lone	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Tower	compound
10	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 saw	xcomp
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 standing	xcomp
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 pink	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pink	det
15	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 primrose	cc
17	primrose	primrose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pink	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 East	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 East	det
20	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 primrose	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 base	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 base	cc
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 base	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 base	nmod:poss
25	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 swirl	det
27	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 swirl	amod
28	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 base	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swirl	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 heard	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 heard	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
35	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 swirl	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 roar	det
37	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 roar	amod
38	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heard	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 roar	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the dawn				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	Nigel	the Lone Tower			tree rules
3	stand	gerund	the Lone Tower not said here		the pink and primrose of the East	dark property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pink=Location
4	hear	past	Nigel	the wonderful roar of roar			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roar=Stimulus
5	roar		roar				nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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