The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 105

Now he stood once more between warm earth and blue sky, and looked down on the green plain dotted with fruit trees and red-roofed farms and plots of gold corn.

Who acts: shower · What happens: stand, look down, dot, roof, plot · To what, where: warm earth, green plain, gold corn

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shower), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 stood	advmod
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 earth	amod
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sky	cc
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sky	amod
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earth	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 looked	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 plain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 plain	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 plain	amod
19	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
20	dotted	dot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 plain	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 trees	case
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dotted	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 farms	cc
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 roofed	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 red	punct
27	roofed	roof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 farms	amod
28	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 trees	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plots	cc
30	plots	plot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 trees	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 corn	case
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 corn	compound
33	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plots	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	shower		warm earth and blue sky	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between earth=Location
2	look down	past	shower not said here				on the green plain	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plain=Theme
3	dot	participle		the green plain not said here			with fruit trees and roofed farms and plots of gold corn	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=Theme
4	roof	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	plot			gold corn				nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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