The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 78

And when the whirlpools suddenly stopped whirling and the tide sank, like water in a basin that has a hole in it, he stuck to his oars and put his back into his stroke, and presently beached the boat on the yellow sand.

Who acts: whirlpools, tide, basin, Nigel · What happens: stop, whirl, sink, have, stick, put · To what, where: water, basin, hole, tide, back, stroke

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 (whirlpools, tide, basin, Nigel), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 stopped	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stopped	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whirlpools	det
4	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stopped	nsubj
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 stopped	advmod
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sank	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tide	det
10	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sank	nsubj
11	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sank	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 basin	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 basin	det
17	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sank	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 basin	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hole	det
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hole	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stuck	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stuck	nsubj
26	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 oars	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 oars	nmod:poss
29	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stuck	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stuck	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 stroke	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 stroke	nmod:poss
36	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 beached	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 beached	cc
39	presently	presently	ADV	_	40 beached	advmod
40	beached	beach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boat	det
42	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beached	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	46 sand	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sand	det
45	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sand	amod
46	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beached	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the whirlpools			suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	whirl	gerund	the whirlpools not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	sink	past	the tide	water	a basin		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	have	present	a basin	a hole	tide		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
5	stick	past	Nigel			to Nigel's oars	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to oar=Co-Patient
6	put	infinitive	Nigel not said here	Nigel's back	Nigel's stroke		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent back=Goal
7	beach	past	the whirlpools not said here	the boat	the yellow sand	presently property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme on sand=Destination
8	stroke		Nigel				nom stroke «act 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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