The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 62

At first there were only a few, but in a week or two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm of bees.

Who acts: country, you · What happens: be, run, see · To what, where: sizes, air

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 were	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 few	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 few	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 few	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 running	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 running	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 two	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 week	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 running	aux
18	simply	simply	ADV	_	19 running	advmod
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 few	conj
20	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 running	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 dragons	case
22	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 running	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sizes	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 sizes	det
25	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dragons	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	obl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 see	advmod
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 few	parataxis
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 thick	advmod
37	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 see	xcomp
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 swarm	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 swarm	det
40	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thick	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 bees	case
42	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 swarm	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 few	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					few property	tree rules
2	run	past · progressive	the country			week	with dragons of all sizes; alive, simply property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with dragon=Material
3	see	could	you	sizes = size	the air		sometimes, thick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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