The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 75

The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming; but when they flew in at the windows and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock.

Who acts: ones, you, sheep, bed · What happens: be, avoid, see, come, fly in, curl up · To what, where: sheep, windows, eiderdown, bed, shock

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 (ones, you, sheep, bed), 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 ones	det
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 easier	nsubj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 sheep	case
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 big	obl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 easier	cop
8	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 avoid	mark
10	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easier	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 avoid	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 see	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 flew	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 flew	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flew	nsubj
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 easier	parataxis
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 windows	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 windows	det
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flew	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 curled	cc
28	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 flew	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 curled	compound:prt
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 eiderdown	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eiderdown	nmod:poss
32	eiderdown	eiderdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 curled	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 find	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 find	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 find	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 find	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 find	advmod
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easier	parataxis
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 find	obj
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 went	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 went	nsubj
42	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 find	ccomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 bed	case
44	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 went	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 shock	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 shock	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 shock	cop
48	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	50 shock	advmod
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 shock	det
50	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 easier	parataxis
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 easier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ones			easy property	tree rules
2	avoid	to-infinitive	the ones not said here				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	see	could	you	sheep			tree rules
4	come	gerund	sheep not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fly in	past	sheep		the windows		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location
6	curl up	participle	sheep not said here		your eiderdown		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
7	not find	past · do-support	you	sheep			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
8	go	past	you		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
9	is a	past	bed	a shock		always property	tree rules

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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