The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 24

The children went by twos and by threes and by tens and by twenties, and the red and blue and yellow and white of their frocks were scattered on the green of the field.

Who acts: children · What happens: go, scatter · To what, where: red, green

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 (children), 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 twos	case
5	twos	two	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threes	cc
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 threes	case
8	threes	three	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 twos	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tens	cc
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 tens	case
11	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 twos	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 twenties	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 twenties	case
14	twenties	twenty	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 twos	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scattered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 scattered	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 red	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 scattered	nsubj:pass
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blue	cc
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 red	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 yellow	cc
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 red	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 white	cc
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 red	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 frocks	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 frocks	nmod:poss
27	frocks	frock	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 white	obl
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 scattered	aux:pass
29	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 green	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 green	det
32	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scattered	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 field	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 field	det
35	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 green	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the children					by twos and threes and tens and twenties	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by two=Location
2	scatter	past · passive		the red		the green of the field			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on green=Destination

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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