The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 74

And when the Dragon saw them start, he turned and flew after them, with his great wings flapping like clouds at sunset, and the Hippogriff's wide wings were snowy as clouds at moonrise.

Who acts: Dragon, books, great wings, wide wings · What happens: see, start, turn, fly, flap, be · To what, where: books

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 (Dragon, books, great wings, wide wings), 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	_	10 turned	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dragon	det
4	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saw	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flew	cc
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flew	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wings	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 wings	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wings	nmod:poss
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wings	amod
19	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flew	obl
20	flapping	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 wings	acl
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 clouds	case
22	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flapping	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 sunset	case
24	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flapping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 snowy	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 snowy	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Hippogriff	det
28	Hippogriff	Hippogriff	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 wings	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Hippogriff	case
30	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wings	amod
31	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 snowy	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 snowy	cop
33	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turned	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 clouds	case
35	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 snowy	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 moonrise	case
37	moonrise	moonrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 clouds	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Dragon	books = book			tree rules
2	start	infinitive	books = book not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	turn	past	Dragon				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	fly	past	Dragon not said here		after books = book	with King's great wings	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flap	gerund	King's great wings not said here		sunset	like clouds	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the Hippogriff's wide wings			as clouds at moonrise; snowy property	tree rules

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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