The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 186

And it could not turn around and wriggle up again to look after its poor tail, because, as everyone knows, the way to the fires below is very easy to go down, but quite impossible to come back on.

Who acts: hook, way · What happens: not turn around, wriggle up, look, know, be, go down · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hook, way), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 turn	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wriggle	cc
8	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 wriggle	compound:prt
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 wriggle	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wriggle	advcl
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 tail	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tail	amod
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 knows	mark
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 because	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 everyone	case
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 knows	obl
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 way	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 easy	nsubj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 fires	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fires	det
28	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 way	nmod
29	below	below	ADV	_	28 fires	advmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 easy	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 easy	advmod
32	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 knows	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 easy	csubj
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 impossible	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 impossible	cc
38	quite	quite	ADV	_	39 impossible	advmod
39	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 easy	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 come	mark
41	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 impossible	csubj
42	back	back	ADV	_	41 come	advmod
43	on	on	ADV	_	41 come	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not turn around	could	hook		around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	wriggle up	infinitive	hook not said here	again		vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	to-infinitive	hook not said here	after hook's poor tail		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	know	present	hook not said here		as everyone	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as everyone=Attribute
5	is	present	the way to the fires		easy property	tree rules
6	go down	to-infinitive			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	be		the way to the fires not said here			tree rules
8	come back	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «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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