The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 72

As Tom went out from the town and across the downs, he thought what a pretty sight it was to see the rabbits in the bright, dewy morning, frisking with their young ones by the mouths of their burrows.

Who acts: Tom, pretty sight · What happens: go out, think, see, frisk · To what, where: town, rabbits · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tom, pretty sight), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	advcl
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 downs	cc
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 downs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 downs	det
11	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 town	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 see	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sight	det
17	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sight	amod
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	nsubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rabbits	det
24	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	30 morning	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 morning	det
27	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bright	punct
29	dewy	dewy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 frisking	punct
32	frisking	frisk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 see	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 ones	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ones	nmod:poss
35	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ones	amod
36	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 frisking	obl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 mouths	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mouths	det
39	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 frisking	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 burrows	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 burrows	nmod:poss
42	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 mouths	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Tom		the town and the downs		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	Tom					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	see	past	a pretty sight	the rabbits		morning		tree rules
4	frisk	gerund	a pretty sight not said here				with rabbits's young ones; by the mouths of rabbits's burrows	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent

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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