The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 41

The rabbits were about the size of our rhinoceroses, and all about the wild parts of the island they had made their burrows as big as railway tunnels.

Who acts: rabbits · What happens: be, make · To what, where: burrows

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 (rabbits), 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	2 rabbits	det
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 size	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 size	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 size	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 size	det
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rhinoceroses	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rhinoceroses	nmod:poss
9	rhinoceroses	rhinoceros	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 size	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 parts	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 parts	cc
12	all	all	ADV	_	16 parts	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 parts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 parts	det
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 parts	amod
16	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 size	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 island	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 island	det
19	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 parts	nmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 island	acl:relcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 burrows	nmod:poss
24	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 big	advmod
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 made	xcomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 tunnels	case
28	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tunnels	compound
29	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 big	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 size	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rabbits					about the size; of our rhinoceroses; about the wild parts of the island	tree rules
2	make	past · perfect	rabbits = rabbit	sizes's burrows				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset burrow=Product

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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