The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 135

Of course this pulled his tail, and pulled it very hard, so hard that as he pulled the tail _had_ to come, and the pillar _had_ to come around with the tail, and the island _had_ to come around with the pillar, and in another minute the tail was loose, and the island was spinning around exactly like a top.

Who acts: Yah, _, tail, island · What happens: pull, _, come, come around, be, spin around · To what, where: tail, pillar, island

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 (Yah, _, tail, island), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 this	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 pulled	obl
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pulled	cc
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pulled	obj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 pulled	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hard	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 pulled	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 pulled	mark
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 pulled	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pulled	nsubj
19	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hard	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tail	det
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pulled	obj
22	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 _	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 _	aux
24	_	_	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 pulled	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 _	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 _	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 _	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pillar	det
30	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 _	nsubj:pass
31	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 pillar	appos
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 _	aux
33	_	_	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pulled	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 come	mark
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 _	xcomp
36	around	around	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 tail	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tail	det
39	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 _	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 _	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 island	det
43	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 _	nsubj:pass
44	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 island	appos
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 _	aux
46	_	_	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pulled	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 come	mark
48	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 _	xcomp
49	around	around	ADV	_	48 come	advmod
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 pillar	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 pillar	det
52	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 come	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 loose	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 loose	cc
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 minute	case
56	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	57 minute	det
57	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 loose	obl
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 tail	det
59	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 loose	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 loose	cop
61	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pulled	parataxis
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 spinning	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 spinning	cc
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 island	det
65	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 spinning	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 spinning	aux
67	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 loose	advcl
68	around	around	ADV	_	67 spinning	advmod
69	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	72 top	advmod
70	like	like	ADP	_	72 top	case
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 top	det
72	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 spinning	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past		Yah's tail		of this; hard property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme of this=Initial_Location
2	pull	past		tail		hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	pull	past	Yah	the tail			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
4	_	past · perfect	_				tree rules
5	come	to-infinitive	_ not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	_	past · perfect · passive		the pillar			tree rules
7	come around	to-infinitive				with the tail; around property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
8	_	past · perfect · passive		the island			tree rules
9	come around	to-infinitive				with the pillar; around property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
10	is	past	the tail		minute	loose property	tree rules
11	spin around	past · progressive	the island			like a top; around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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