The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 154

But turn it nine times around the wrong way, and the door flies open."

Who acts: door · What happens: turn, fly · To what, where: key, wrong way

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 (door), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 turn	cc
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	obj
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl:unmarked
6	around	around	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flies	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flies	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flies	nsubj
14	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turn	conj
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flies	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present		key		the wrong way	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme around way=Trajectory
2	fly	present	the door					open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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