The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 77

The red wings were bigger than the white ones, but they were not so strong, and so the white-winged horse flew away and away and away, with the Dragon pursuing, till he reached the very middle of the Pebbly Waste.

Who acts: red wings, wings, winged horse, Horse · What happens: be, not be, wing, fly, reach · To what, where: middle

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 (red wings, wings, winged horse, Horse), 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 wings	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wings	amod
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bigger	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 ones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bigger	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 strong	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 strong	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 strong	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 strong	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 strong	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 strong	advmod
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bigger	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flew	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horse	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 winged	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 white	punct
23	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 horse	amod
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	nsubj
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 strong	parataxis
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 away	cc
28	away	away	ADV	_	26 away	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 away	cc
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 away	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pursuing	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 pursuing	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pursuing	det
34	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 pursuing	compound
35	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 reached	punct
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 reached	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 reached	nsubj
39	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flew	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 middle	det
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 middle	advmod
42	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 reached	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 Waste	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Waste	det
45	Pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Waste	amod
46	Waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 middle	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bigger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the red wings		than the white ones; big property	tree rules
2	not is	past	wings = wing		strong property	tree rules
3	wing	participle				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	fly	past	the winged horse		with the Dragon pursuing; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reach	past	Horse	the middle of the Pebbly Waste		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=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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