The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 201

It was a fearful sight, and people watched it from a distance, falling off their legs with the shock of every bang, but always getting up to look again.

Who acts: foundry, people · What happens: be, watch, fall off, get up, look, shock · To what, where: fearful sight, foundry, legs, bang

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foundry, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sight	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sight	det
4	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sight	amod
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 watched	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 watched	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 watched	nsubj
9	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sight	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watched	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 distance	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 distance	det
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 falling	punct
15	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 watched	advcl
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 legs	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 legs	nmod:poss
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 falling	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 shock	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shock	det
21	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 falling	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bang	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 bang	det
24	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shock	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 getting	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 getting	cc
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 getting	advmod
28	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 watched	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 getting	compound:prt
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 getting	advcl
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 look	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	foundry	a fearful sight			tree rules
2	watch	past	people	foundry		from a distance	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	fall off	gerund	people not said here	people's legs		with the shock of every bang	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient leg=Extent
4	get up	gerund	people not said here			always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	look	to-infinitive	people not said here		again		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	shock			every bang			nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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