The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

Of course, the consequence of the island having spun around the wrong way was that when the animals began to grow on the island they all grew the wrong sizes.

Who acts: island, animals · What happens: have, spin, begin, grow · To what, where: wrong way, island, wrong sizes

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 (island, animals), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	5 consequence	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Of	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
9	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 island	acl
10	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 having	xcomp
11	around	around	ADP	_	14 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spun	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 that	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 consequence	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 began	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 animals	det
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 that	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 grow	mark
22	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 island	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 island	det
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grow	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grew	nsubj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 they	det
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 island	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sizes	det
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sizes	amod
31	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grew	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	gerund	the island not said here			tree rules
2	spin	participle	the island not said here		the wrong way	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around way=Trajectory
3	begin	past	the animals			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	grow	to-infinitive	the animals not said here		the island	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location
5	grow	past	animals = animal	the wrong sizes		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location size=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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