The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 32

Presently Center of Gravity--a great giant who was managing the whole business--woke up in the middle of the earth and began to grumble.

Who acts: great giant, Center · What happens: manage, wake up, begin, grumble · To what, where: whole business, middle

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great giant, Center), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	2 Center	advmod
2	Center	Center	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 woke	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Gravity	case
4	Gravity	Gravity	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Center	nmod
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 giant	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 giant	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 giant	amod
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Center	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 managing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 managing	aux
11	managing	manage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 giant	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 business	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 business	amod
14	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 managing	obj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Center	punct
16	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 woke	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 middle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 middle	det
20	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woke	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 earth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 middle	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 woke	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 grumble	mark
27	grumble	grumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	manage	past · progressive	a great giant	the whole business		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme
2	wake up	past	Center of Gravity		the middle of the earth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	begin	past	Center of Gravity not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	grumble speech: other	to-infinitive	Center of Gravity not said here			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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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