The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 14

And as Sabrinetta stood on her tower she saw a shaking and a twisting of the rose-thorny hedge, and then something very bright and shining wriggled out through it into the ferny ditch and back again.

Who acts: Sabrinetta, Princess · What happens: stand, see, wriggle out, twist · To what, where: tower, shaking, hedge, thorny hedge

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 (Sabrinetta, Princess), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	Sabrinetta	Sabrinetta	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tower	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tower	nmod:poss
7	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shaking	det
11	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 twisting	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 twisting	det
14	twisting	twisting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaking	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 hedge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hedge	det
17	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thorny	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 rose	punct
19	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hedge	amod
20	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twisting	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bright	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bright	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 bright	advmod
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 bright	nsubj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 bright	advmod
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wriggled	cc
28	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 wriggled	aux:pass
29	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 bright	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 wriggled	compound:prt
31	through	through	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wriggled	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 ditch	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ditch	det
35	ferny	ferny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ditch	amod
36	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wriggled	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 again	cc
38	back	back	ADV	_	39 again	advmod
39	again	again	ADV	_	36 ditch	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Sabrinetta		Princess's tower		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tower=Location
2	see	past	Princess	a shaking and a twisting of the thorny hedge			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shaking=Stimulus
3	wriggle out	gerund · passive	Princess not said here		hedge	into the ferny ditch	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»
4	twist			the thorny hedge			nom twisting «act 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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