The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 114

But while he was speaking the rabbits had come up one on each side of him, their great sides towering ever so high, and now they pressed him between them so that he was buried in their thick fur and almost choked.

Who acts: boy, speaking, great sides, rabbits · What happens: speak, come up, tower, press, bury, choke · To what, where: rabbits, one, side, boy, thick fur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, speaking, great sides, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 speaking	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	aux
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 come	csubj:pass
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rabbits	det
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 speaking	obj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 come	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 side	det
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 side	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sides	punct
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sides	nmod:poss
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sides	amod
20	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	obl
21	towering	tower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sides	acl
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 towering	advmod
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 high	advmod
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 towering	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pressed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pressed	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 pressed	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pressed	nsubj
29	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pressed	obj
31	between	between	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pressed	obl
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 buried	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 buried	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 buried	aux:pass
37	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 pressed	advcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 fur	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fur	nmod:poss
40	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fur	amod
41	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 buried	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 choked	cc
43	almost	almost	ADV	_	44 choked	advmod
44	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 buried	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	boy	the rabbits				tree rules
2	come up	past · perfect	speaking	one	each side of boy		rabbits's great sides obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	tower	gerund	rabbits's great sides not said here			ever	high property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	press	past	rabbits = rabbit	boy		now	between things = thing	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
5	bury	past · passive		boy	things's thick fur			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fur=Destination
6	choke	participle					almost property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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