The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 66

Then the whole surface of the land turned itself over in its anxiety to get rid of something so wicked, and in the morning the field was found to be plowed as thoroughly as any young man at Oxford.

Who acts: whole surface · What happens: turn over, get, find, plow · To what, where: surface, anxiety, field

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 (whole surface), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 surface	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 surface	amod
4	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 surface	nmod
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 turned	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	8 turned	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 anxiety	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 anxiety	nmod:poss
13	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turned	advcl
16	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 something	case
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 rid	obl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 wicked	advmod
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 something	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 found	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 morning	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 morning	det
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 field	det
27	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 found	aux:pass
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 turned	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 plowed	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 plowed	aux:pass
32	plowed	plow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 found	advcl
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 thoroughly	advmod
34	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	32 plowed	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	38 man	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 man	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plowed	obl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 Oxford	case
40	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 man	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn over	past	the whole surface of the land	surface	surface's anxiety	then		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	the whole surface of the land not said here				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	past · passive		the field		morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	plow	to-infinitive · passive					as any young man at Oxford; thoroughly property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»

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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