The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 71

It was quite in the middle of the island, and stuck up ever so far, and when you were at the top you could see a great deal farther than when you were not.

Who acts: pillar, you · What happens: be, stick up, see, not be · To what, where: middle, top, great deal

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, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 middle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 middle	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 middle	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 island	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 island	det
9	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stuck	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stuck	cc
12	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 middle	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 stuck	compound:prt
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 stuck	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 stuck	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 top	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 top	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 top	cop
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 top	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 top	det
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stuck	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 deal	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 deal	amod
30	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
31	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 see	advmod
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 were	mark
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 were	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 were	nsubj
35	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 farther	advcl
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 were	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 middle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	pillar		the middle		of the island	tree rules
2	stick up	participle				ever	far property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	you		the top			tree rules
4	see	could	you	a great deal			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
5	not be	past	you					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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