The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 28

The sun shone, and the sky was blue, and the fields were quite green, and all the flowers were very bright indeed, because it was May Day.

Who acts: sun, sky, fields, flowers · What happens: shine, be · To what, where: May Day

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 (sun, sky, fields, flowers), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blue	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blue	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blue	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blue	cop
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shone	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 green	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 green	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fields	det
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 green	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 green	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 green	advmod
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blue	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bright	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bright	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 flowers	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flowers	det
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bright	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bright	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 bright	advmod
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shone	parataxis
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	24 bright	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Day	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 Day	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 Day	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 Day	cop
30	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Day	compound
31	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the sky		blue property	tree rules
3	is	past	the fields		green property	tree rules
4	is	past	all flowers		bright, indeed property	tree rules
5	is a	past	sky	May Day		tree rules

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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