The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

The Blue Bird sang more sweetly than ever, and the Butterfly shone more brightly, as Lionel once more carried _The Book of Beasts_ out into the rose garden, and opened it--very quickly, so that he might not be afraid and change his mind.

Who acts: Blue Bird, Butterfly, Lionel · What happens: sing, shine, carry, open, not be, change · To what, where: Book, garden, mind

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue Bird, Butterfly, Lionel), 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	3 Bird	det
2	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bird	amod
3	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 sweetly	advmod
6	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 sweetly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shone	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Butterfly	det
12	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shone	nsubj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	parataxis
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 brightly	advmod
15	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	13 shone	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 carried	mark
18	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 carried	nsubj
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 carried	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 carried	advmod
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shone	conj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
23	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Book	det
24	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Beasts	case
26	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 Book	nmod
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 out	punct
28	out	out	ADV	_	21 carried	advmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 garden	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 garden	det
31	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 garden	compound
32	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 out	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 opened	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 opened	cc
35	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 opened	obj
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 quickly	punct
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 quickly	advmod
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	35 opened	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 afraid	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	47 afraid	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 afraid	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 afraid	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 afraid	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 afraid	cop
47	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 opened	advcl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 change	cc
49	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 afraid	conj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 mind	nmod:poss
51	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 change	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the Blue Bird		sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	shine	past	the Butterfly		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	carry	past	Lionel	the Book of Beasts	once, out property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
4	open	past	the Blue Bird not said here	garden	quickly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	not is	might	Lionel		afraid property	tree rules
6	change	infinitive	Lionel not said here	Lionel's mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	mind		Lionel			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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