The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 78

Now, the Pebbly Waste is just like the parts of the seaside where there is no sand--all round, loose, shifting stones, and there is no grass there and no tree within a hundred miles of it.

Who acts: Pebbly Waste, sand, all, shifting · What happens: be, shift · To what, where: stones, grass

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 (Pebbly Waste, sand, all, shifting), 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	10 parts	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Waste	det
4	Pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Waste	amod
5	Waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parts	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 parts	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 parts	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 parts	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parts	det
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 seaside	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seaside	det
13	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parts	nmod
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 is	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seaside	acl:relcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 sand	det
18	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 loose	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 loose	nsubj
21	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 loose	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 round	punct
23	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 parts	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shifting	punct
25	shifting	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 grass	csubj
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shifting	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 is	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 is	expl
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 grass	cop
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 grass	det
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 loose	parataxis
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 grass	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tree	cc
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grass	conj
37	within	within	ADP	_	40 miles	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hundred	det
39	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 miles	nummod
40	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 loose	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 miles	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 parts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Pebbly Waste			now	like the parts; of the seaside	tree rules
2	be	present	no sand		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be		all				within hundred miles of Waste	tree rules
4	shift	gerund		stones				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer stone=Patient
5	is a	present	shifting	no grass and no tree	there			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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