The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 139

The dragon had sent the kingdom of Rotundia spinning the way it ought to have gone at the beginning of the world, and as it spun around, all the animals began to change sizes.

Who acts: dragon, animals · What happens: send, spin, go, spin around, begin, change · To what, where: dragon, way, beginning, sizes, world

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 (dragon, animals), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kingdom	det
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Rotundia	case
8	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kingdom	nmod
9	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sent	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spinning	obl:unmarked
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
13	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	16 gone	mark
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 way	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 beginning	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beginning	det
19	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beginning	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spun	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 spun	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 spun	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spun	nsubj
27	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	parataxis
28	around	around	ADV	_	27 spun	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 animals	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 animals	det
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spun	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 change	mark
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 change	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		the dragon			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination kingdom=Theme
2	spin	gerund		the way			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	go	ought · perfect	dragon	the way not said here	at the beginning of the world		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at beginning=Location
4	spin around	past	dragon			around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	all animals				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	change	to-infinitive	all animals not said here	sizes			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient
7	begin			the world			nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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