The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

The pillar, of course, was the top of the piece of rock that had stuck itself through Rotundia millions of years before, and made it spin around the wrong way.

Who acts: pillar · What happens: be, stick, make, spin · To what, where: top, rock, Rotundia millions, pillar, wrong way

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 (pillar), 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 pillar	det
2	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 course	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 course	case
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pillar	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pillar	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 top	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 piece	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rock	case
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stuck	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stuck	aux
17	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 rock	acl:relcl
18	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 stuck	obj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 millions	case
20	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 millions	compound
21	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stuck	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 years	case
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 millions	nmod
24	before	before	ADV	_	17 stuck	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 top	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	around	around	ADP	_	33 way	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
32	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 way	amod
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spin	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 top	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the pillar and course	the top		of the piece of rock	tree rules
2	stick	past · perfect · passive		rock	Rotundia millions of years	before property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme itself=Destination
3	make	past	the pillar and course not said here	pillar			tree rules
4	spin	infinitive	pillar not said here		the wrong way		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around way=Trajectory

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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