The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 119

Already a great, round black hole had opened in the very middle of the map of England, and the sides of the map were tilting themselves up, so that the rain ran down toward the hole.

Who acts: sides, rain · What happens: open, tilt up, run down · To what, where: great round black hole, middle, taps, hole

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 (sides, rain), 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	Already	already	ADV	_	9 opened	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hole	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hole	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 great	punct
5	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hole	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hole	amod
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	aux
9	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 middle	advmod
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 map	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 map	det
16	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 England	case
18	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 map	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tilting	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tilting	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sides	det
22	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tilting	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 map	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 map	det
25	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sides	nmod
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tilting	aux
27	tilting	tilt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 opened	advcl
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 tilting	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 tilting	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 ran	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rain	det
34	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	nsubj
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tilting	conj
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 ran	compound:prt
37	toward	toward	ADP	_	39 hole	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hole	det
39	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	open	past · perfect · passive		a great round black hole	the middle of the map of England	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in middle=Location
2	tilt up	past · progressive	the sides of the map	taps = tap		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
3	run down	past	the rain		the hole	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward hole=Trajectory

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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