The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 29

Then quite suddenly a cloud passed over the sun, and the silence was broken by shrieks from far off; and, like a many-colored torrent, all the children burst from the wood and rushed, a red and blue and yellow and white wave, across the field, screaming as they ran.

Who acts: shrieks, children, red wave · What happens: pass, break, color, burst, rush, scream · To what, where: cloud, sun, silence, wood

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 (shrieks, children, red wave), 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	5 cloud	advmod
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 suddenly	advmod
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 cloud	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloud	det
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cloud	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 broken	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 broken	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 silence	det
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broken	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 broken	aux:pass
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cloud	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 shrieks	case
17	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 broken	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 far	case
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 off	advmod
20	off	off	ADV	_	15 broken	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 torrent	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 torrent	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 torrent	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	29 torrent	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 torrent	det
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 colored	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 many	punct
28	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 torrent	amod
29	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloud	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 burst	punct
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 children	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 burst	nsubj
34	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 torrent	parataxis
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 wood	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wood	det
37	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burst	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 rushed	cc
39	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 burst	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 wave	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 wave	det
42	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 wave	amod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 blue	cc
44	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 red	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 yellow	cc
46	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 red	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 white	cc
48	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 red	conj
49	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 torrent	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 field	punct
51	across	across	ADP	_	53 field	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 field	det
53	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 wave	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 screaming	punct
55	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 wave	acl
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 ran	mark
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 ran	nsubj
58	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 screaming	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cloud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		a cloud and a colored torrent and a red wave and the field not said here	the sun		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sun=Location
2	break	past · passive	shrieks	the silence		off property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	burst	present	all children		the wood		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rush	past	all children not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	scream speech: express	gerund	a red wave and the field not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	run	past	children = child				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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