The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

So the rock with the round piece of earth fell into the sea, and the point of the rock went into a hole that just fitted it in the stony sea bottom, and there it spun around the wrong way seven times and then lay still.

Who acts: rock, point · What happens: fall, go, fit, spin, lie, point · To what, where: sea, hole, stony sea bottom, wrong way, rock

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 (rock, point), 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 piece	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rock	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 earth	case
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 point	det
17	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 rock	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rock	det
20	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 point	nmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 hole	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hole	det
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fitted	obj
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 fitted	advmod
27	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hole	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fitted	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 bottom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bottom	det
31	stony	stony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bottom	amod
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bottom	compound
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fitted	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spun	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spun	cc
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 spun	expl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 spun	nsubj
38	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
39	around	around	ADP	_	42 way	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 way	det
41	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 way	amod
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spun	obl
43	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 times	nummod
44	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 spun	obl:unmarked
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lay	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 lay	advmod
47	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
48	still	still	ADV	_	47 lay	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the rock with the round piece of earth				into the sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
2	go	past	the point of the rock		a hole			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location
3	fit	past		a hole	the stony sea bottom			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme it=Destination
4	spin	past	point		the wrong way; there	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around way=Trajectory
5	lie	past	the rock with the round piece of earth not said here			then; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	point			the rock				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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