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

She took the dragonproof bottle, made of burnished brass, and ran back to the wood, and to the dell, where Elfin was sitting among his sleek black pigs, waiting for her.

Who acts: Dragon, Elfin · What happens: take, make, burnish, run back, sit, wait · To what, where: dragonproof bottle, dell

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 (Dragon, Elfin), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottle	det
4	dragonproof	dragonproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bottle	amod
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bottle	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 brass	case
9	burnished	burnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 brass	amod
10	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dell	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 dell	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dell	det
22	dell	dell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sitting	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 sitting	advmod
25	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sitting	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sitting	aux
27	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 dell	acl:relcl
28	among	among	ADP	_	32 pigs	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pigs	nmod:poss
30	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pigs	amod
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pigs	amod
32	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sitting	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 waiting	punct
34	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 sitting	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 waiting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Dragon	the dragonproof bottle	the dell		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme to dell=Destination
2	make	participle		the dragonproof bottle not said here		of burnished brass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	burnish	participle					tree rules
4	run back	past	Dragon not said here			to the wood result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wood=Result
5	sit	past · progressive	Elfin			among Elfin's sleek black pigs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among pig=Location
6	wait	gerund				for Dragon	vn exist-47.1 «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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