The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 51

At that moment there was a soft, silky rush behind the Princess, and there was her mother, the Queen, who had slipped out of the stone statue at the moment the griffin was dead, and now came hurrying to take her dear daughter in her arms.

Who acts: mother, Queen, griffin · What happens: be, slip out, come, hurry, take · To what, where: soft silky rush, stone statue, dear daughter, arms

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 (mother, Queen, griffin), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rush	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rush	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rush	det
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rush	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soft	punct
9	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rush	amod
10	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 Princess	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rush	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rush	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Queen	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Queen	det
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mother	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 slipped	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 slipped	aux
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 Queen	parataxis
27	out	out	ADP	_	31 statue	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 statue	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 statue	det
30	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 statue	compound
31	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 moment	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moment	det
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dead	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 griffin	det
36	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dead	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 dead	cop
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 slipped	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 came	advmod
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 dead	conj
43	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 came	xcomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 take	mark
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 hurrying	xcomp
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 daughter	nmod:poss
47	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 daughter	amod
48	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 take	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 arms	case
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 arms	nmod:poss
51	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 take	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a soft silky rush		moment	behind the Princess	tree rules
2	be	past	Princess's mother		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slip out	past · perfect	the Queen	the stone statue				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent statue=Patient
4	is	past	the griffin			moment	dead property	tree rules
5	come	past	the griffin not said here			now		tree rules
6	hurry	gerund	the griffin not said here					tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	the griffin not said here	mother's dear daughter	mother's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Value in arm=Location

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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