The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 72

What he knew was this: that for five minutes out of the 1,440 minutes that make up a day the whirlpools slipped into silence, while the tide went down and left the yellow sand bare.

Who acts: Nigel, 1,440 minutes, whirlpools, tide · What happens: know, be, make up, slip, go down, leave · To what, where: that, this, silence, yellow sand

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, 1,440 minutes, whirlpools, tide), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knew	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 this	cop
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knew	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knew	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	obl
11	out	out	ADP	_	15 minutes	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 minutes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 minutes	det
14	1,440	1,440	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 minutes	nummod
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 minutes	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 make	nsubj
17	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 minutes	acl:relcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 make	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obl:unmarked
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 whirlpools	det
22	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 slipped	nsubj
23	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 make	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 silence	case
25	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slipped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 went	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tide	det
29	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 slipped	parataxis
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 left	cc
33	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 went	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sand	det
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sand	amod
36	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obj
37	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 left	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Nigel	that		minute		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	is a	past		this				tree rules
3	make up	present	the 1,440 minutes			day		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	slip	past	the whirlpools		silence			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	go down	past	the tide				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	leave	past	the tide not said here	the yellow sand			bare property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=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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