The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 136

It spun so fast that everyone fell flat on their faces and held on tight to themselves, because they felt something was going to happen.

Who acts: island, everyone, wings, something · What happens: spin, fall, hold, feel, go, happen · To what, where: faces

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 (island, everyone, wings, something), 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	2 spun	nsubj
2	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 spun	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fell	mark
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spun	advcl
8	flat	flat	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 faces	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 faces	nmod:poss
11	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 held	cc
13	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spun	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 tight	case
15	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 held	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 themselves	case
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 tight	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 felt	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 felt	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spun	conj
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 going	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 felt	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 happen	mark
26	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	spin	past	island		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	everyone	wings's faces	flat property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location
3	hold	participle	island not said here		tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feel	past	wings = wing			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go	past · progressive	something			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	happen	to-infinitive	something not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «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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