The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 214

The bottle got hotter and hotter in Elfin's hands, because the dragon inside was puffing fire and smoke with all his might--hotter and hotter and hotter--but Elfin held on till they came to the cliff edge, and there was the dark blue sea, and the whirlpool going around and around.

Who acts: bottle, dragon, Elfin, hands, dark blue sea, whirlpool · What happens: get, puff, hold on, come, be, go · To what, where: fire, cliff edge

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 (bottle, dragon, Elfin, hands), 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 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hotter	cc
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hotter	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 hands	case
8	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hands	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Elfin	case
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hotter	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 puffing	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 puffing	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dragon	det
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 puffing	nsubj
15	inside	inside	ADV	_	14 dragon	advmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 puffing	aux
17	puffing	puff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 got	advcl
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 puffing	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 smoke	cc
20	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fire	conj
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 hotter	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 hotter	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hotter	nmod:poss
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hotter	aux
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 hotter	punct
26	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 puffing	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hotter	cc
28	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 hotter	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hotter	cc
30	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 hotter	conj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 held	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 held	cc
33	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 held	nsubj
34	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	34 held	compound:prt
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 came	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 held	advcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 edge	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 edge	det
41	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 edge	compound
42	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 was	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 was	cc
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 was	expl
46	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sea	det
48	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 sea	amod
49	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 sea	amod
50	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 was	nsubj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 going	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 going	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 whirlpool	det
54	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 going	nsubj
55	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 got	conj
56	around	around	ADV	_	55 going	advmod
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 around	cc
58	around	around	ADV	_	56 around	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the bottle			hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	puff	past · progressive	the dragon	fire and smoke			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Source
3	hold on	past	Elfin				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	hands = hand		the cliff edge		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location
5	be	past	the dark blue sea		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	gerund	the whirlpool			around property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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