The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 94

It was so amusing to sit up all night instead of going to sleep, and to play in the garden lighted by electric lamps.

Who acts: It · What happens: be, sit up, go, sleep, play, light · To what, where: garden

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 (It), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 amusing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amusing	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 amusing	advmod
4	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 amusing	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sit	compound:prt
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl:unmarked
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 going	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sit	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sleep	mark
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 play	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 garden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 garden	det
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 play	obl
22	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 garden	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 lamps	case
24	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lamps	amod
25	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lighted	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amusing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				amusing property	tree rules
2	sit up	to-infinitive				night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	gerund						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play	to-infinitive			the garden			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	light	participle		the garden not said here			by electric lamps	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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