The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 76

It was a fire of sticks, and beside it sat a ragged youth with long, yellow hair; all around lay sleeping forms which breathed heavily.

Who acts: dell, forms · What happens: be, sit, lie, sleep, breathe · To what, where: fire, ragged youth, forms

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 (dell, forms), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fire	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fire	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fire	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 sat	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fire	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 youth	det
13	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 youth	amod
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 hair	case
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hair	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 long	punct
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hair	amod
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
21	all	all	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
22	around	around	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lay	xcomp
25	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sleeping	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 breathed	nsubj
27	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 forms	acl:relcl
28	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	27 breathed	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dell	a fire	of sticks	tree rules
2	sit	past	dell	a ragged youth	with long yellow hair	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location youth=Theme
3	lie	past	dell not said here		all, around property	tree rules
4	sleep	gerund	dell not said here	forms		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
5	breathe	past	forms		heavily property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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