The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 26

Then by twos and by threes, by tens and by twenties, the children vanished into the wood, till the mantle of the field was left plain green once more.

Who acts: twos · What happens: vanish, leave · To what, where: wood, mantle

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 (twos), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 vanished	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 twos	case
3	twos	two	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 vanished	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threes	cc
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 threes	case
6	threes	three	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 twos	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tens	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 tens	case
9	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 twos	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 twenties	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 twenties	case
12	twenties	twenty	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 twos	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 children	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 twos	conj
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vanished	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mantle	punct
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 mantle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mantle	det
23	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 field	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 field	det
26	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mantle	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 vanished	conj
29	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 green	amod
30	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obj
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 left	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	twos and threes and tens and twenties and the children			the wood	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · passive		the mantle of the field					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme green=Attribute

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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