The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 35

But the dragon was asleep under the whirlpools, and when he woke up from being asleep he found he was drowned, so there was an end of him.

Who acts: dragon, Nigel, end · What happens: be, wake up, find, drown · To what, where: whirlpools, Nigel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, Nigel, end), 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	_	5 asleep	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 whirlpools	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whirlpools	det
8	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asleep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 woke	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 woke	nsubj
13	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 woke	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 asleep	case
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 asleep	cop
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woke	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drowned	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drowned	aux:pass
22	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 found	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 end	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dragon		the whirlpools	asleep property	tree rules
2	wake up	past	Nigel				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	gerund				asleep property	tree rules
4	find	past	Nigel				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	drown	past · passive		Nigel			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	be	past	a end of Nigel		there		vn exist-47.1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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