The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 101

Then Effie turned the rain tap quite full on, and presently the dragons began to wriggle less, and by-and-by some of them lay quite still, so the children knew the water had put out the fires inside them, and they were dead.

Who acts: Effie, dragons, some, children · What happens: turn, begin, wriggle, lay, know, put out · To what, where: rain tap, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Effie, dragons, some, children), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
2	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tap	det
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tap	compound
6	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tap	amod
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
12	presently	presently	ADV	_	15 began	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dragons	det
14	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wriggle	mark
17	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 wriggle	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 lay	mark
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 by	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 lay	mark
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 lay	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 some	nmod
29	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	parataxis
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 still	advmod
31	still	still	ADV	_	29 lay	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 knew	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 knew	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 children	det
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 knew	nsubj
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lay	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 put	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 put	aux
40	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 knew	ccomp
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 put	compound:prt
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fires	det
43	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 put	obj
44	inside	inside	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fires	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 dead	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 dead	cc
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 dead	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 dead	cop
50	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lay	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Effie	the rain tap	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tap=Theme
2	begin	past	the dragons			presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wriggle	to-infinitive	the dragons not said here			less property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	present	some		still		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	know	past	the children				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	put out	past · perfect · passive		the water			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset fire=Goal
7	is	past	dragons = dragon			dead 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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