The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 121

So between them they managed, with bits of stick and by singeing their fingers a little, to poke and shove the dragon till they made it creep into the silver hunting bottle, and then the Prince screwed on the top tight.

Who acts: hands, bits, finger, silver, Prince · What happens: manage, singe, poke, shove, make, creep · To what, where: bits, fingers, dragon, finger, silver, bottle

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, bits, finger, silver), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 managed	advmod
2	between	between	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 managed	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 managed	nsubj
5	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bits	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 bits	case
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 managed	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 stick	case
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bits	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 singeing	cc
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 singeing	mark
13	singeing	singe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bits	acl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fingers	nmod:poss
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 singeing	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 singeing	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 poke	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 poke	mark
20	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 managed	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shove	cc
22	shove	shove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 poke	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dragon	det
24	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shove	obj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shove	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 silver	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 silver	det
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 creep	obl
33	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 silver	acl
34	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hunting	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 screwed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 screwed	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 screwed	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Prince	det
39	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 screwed	nsubj
40	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 managed	parataxis
41	on	on	ADP	_	44 tight	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 tight	det
43	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 tight	amod
44	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 screwed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past	hands = hand	bits of stick			between hands = hand	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent bit=Theme between they=Eventuality
2	singe	gerund	bits of stick not said here	hands's fingers			a little obl:unmarked	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
3	poke	to-infinitive						vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	shove	infinitive		the dragon				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme
5	make	past	hands = hand	finger				tree rules
6	creep	infinitive	finger not said here		the silver			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into silver=Destination
7	hunt	gerund	the silver not said here	bottle				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme
8	screw	past	the Prince			then	on the top tight	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on tight=Co-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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