The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 141

And the best of it was that when the small beasts got big and the big beasts got small the dragon got small too, and fell at the Princess's feet--a little, crawling, purple newt with wings.

Who acts: small beasts, big beasts, small · What happens: be, get, fall, crawl · To what, where: feet, purple newt

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 (small beasts, big beasts, small), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 best	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 best	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 best	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 got	mark
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 got	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beasts	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beasts	amod
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 best	conj
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 got	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beasts	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beasts	amod
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	conj
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 got	nsubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dragon	det
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	nsubj
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 got	ccomp
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 got	xcomp
24	too	too	ADV	_	22 got	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	32 feet	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
30	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 feet	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 Princess	case
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fell	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 little	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 crawling	punct
37	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 got	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 newt	punct
39	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 newt	amod
40	newt	newt	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 crawling	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 wings	case
42	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 newt	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the small beasts			big, get property	tree rules
2	get	past	the big beasts				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get	past	small			small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	fall	past	the small beasts not said here		the Princess's feet		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
5	be		the small beasts not said here				tree rules
6	crawl	gerund	the small beasts not said here	purple newt		with wings	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location newt=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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