The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 204

The Princess sat down beside him among the pigs, and they held each other's hands till it was dark, and then the dragon came crawling over the moss, scorching it as he came, and getting smaller as he crawled, and curled up under the root of the tree.

Who acts: Princess, pigs, last, dragon, Elfin · What happens: sit down, hold, be, come, crawl, scorch · To what, where: hands, moss, last, root

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 (Princess, pigs, last, dragon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	obl
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 pigs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pigs	det
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 held	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 held	nsubj
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 other	case
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 held	obj
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 dark	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dark	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dark	cop
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 held	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 came	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dragon	det
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
28	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 moss	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 moss	det
31	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crawling	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 scorching	punct
33	scorching	scorch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 crawling	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 scorching	obj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 came	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 scorching	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 getting	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 getting	cc
40	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 crawling	conj
41	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 getting	xcomp
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 crawled	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 crawled	nsubj
44	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 smaller	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 curled	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 curled	cc
47	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 curled	compound:prt
49	under	under	ADP	_	51 root	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 root	det
51	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 curled	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 tree	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 tree	det
54	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 root	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Princess				beside Elfin; among the pigs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
2	hold	past	pigs = pig	each other's hands				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	is	past	last				dark property	tree rules
4	come	past	the dragon			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crawl	gerund	the dragon not said here		the moss			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over moss=Trajectory
6	scorch	gerund	the dragon not said here	last				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	come	past	Elfin					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get	gerund	the dragon not said here				small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	crawl	past	Elfin					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	curl up	participle	the Princess not said here		the root of the tree			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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