The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 34

He would creep into the burrows made by the great rabbits; and excursionists, sporting on the downs, would see his long, tight, whiplike tail wriggling down a burrow and out of sight, and before they had time to say, "There he goes," his ugly purple head would come poking out from another rabbit-hole--perhaps just behind them--or laugh softly to itself just in their ears.

Who acts: Rotundia, excursionists, long tight whiplike tail, ugly purple head · What happens: creep, make, sport, see, wriggle down, have · To what, where: burrows, downs, long tight whiplike tail, burrow, rabbit hole, head · 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 (Rotundia, excursionists, long tight whiplike tail, ugly purple head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 creep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 creep	aux
3	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 burrows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 burrows	det
6	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 creep	obl
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 burrows	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 rabbits	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rabbits	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rabbits	amod
11	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 excursionists	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 excursionists	cc
14	excursionists	excursionist	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sporting	punct
16	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 excursionists	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 downs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 downs	det
19	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sporting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 creep	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tail	nmod:poss
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tail	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
26	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tail	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tight	punct
28	whiplike	whiplike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tail	amod
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
30	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 tail	acl
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 wriggling	compound:prt
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 burrow	det
33	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wriggling	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sight	cc
35	out	out	ADP	_	37 sight	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 sight	case
37	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 burrow	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 goes	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 goes	cc
40	before	before	SCONJ	_	42 had	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 There	advcl
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 say	mark
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 time	acl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 There	punct
48	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 goes	expl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 goes	nsubj
50	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 creep	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 come	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 come	punct
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 head	nmod:poss
54	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 head	amod
55	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 head	amod
56	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 come	nsubj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 come	aux
58	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 goes	conj
59	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 come	xcomp
60	out	out	ADP	_	59 poking	compound:prt
61	from	from	ADP	_	65 hole	case
62	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	65 hole	det
63	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 hole	compound
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 rabbit	punct
65	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 poking	obl
66	--	--	PUNCT	_	70 them	punct
67	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	70 them	advmod
68	just	just	ADV	_	70 them	advmod
69	behind	behind	ADP	_	70 them	case
70	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 come	advcl
71	--	--	PUNCT	_	73 laugh	punct
72	or	or	CCONJ	_	73 laugh	cc
73	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 creep	conj
74	softly	softly	ADV	_	73 laugh	advmod
75	to	to	ADP	_	76 itself	case
76	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	73 laugh	obl
77	just	just	ADV	_	80 ears	advmod
78	in	in	ADP	_	80 ears	case
79	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	80 ears	nmod:poss
80	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 laugh	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 creep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	would	Rotundia			the burrows			tree rules
2	make	participle		the burrows not said here				by the great rabbits	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	sport	gerund	excursionists not said here			the downs			tree rules
4	see	would	excursionists	Rotundia's long tight whiplike tail					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus
5	wriggle down	gerund	Rotundia's long tight whiplike tail not said here	a burrow and sight					tree rules
6	have	past	excursionists = excursionist				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	excursionists = excursionist not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	go in a quote	present	Rotundia			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	come	would	Rotundia's ugly purple head						tree rules
10	poke out	gerund	Rotundia's ugly purple head not said here			another rabbit hole			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
11	laugh	infinitive	Rotundia not said here		head			in excursionists's ears; softly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ear=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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