The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 63

Harry and Effie could see the country below, hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses flowing away from under them, much faster than you see them running away from the sides of the fastest express train.

Who acts: Harry, hedges, you, farmhouses · What happens: see, flow away, run away · To what, where: country, farmhouses, sides

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 (Harry, hedges, you, farmhouses), 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	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Effie	cc
3	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Harry	conj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	below	below	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hedges	punct
10	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rivers	cc
12	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hedges	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 churches	cc
14	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hedges	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 farmhouses	cc
16	farmhouses	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hedges	conj
17	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 hedges	acl
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 flowing	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 them	case
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flowing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 faster	punct
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 faster	advmod
24	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 see	advmod
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 see	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 faster	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 see	xcomp
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 running	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 sides	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sides	det
33	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 running	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 train	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 train	det
36	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 train	amod
37	express	express	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 train	amod
38	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sides	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	Harry and Effie	the country		hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses obl; below, fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus
2	flow away	gerund	hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses not said here			from farmhouses = farmhouse; away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	present	you	farmhouses = farmhouse			tree rules
4	run away	gerund	farmhouses = farmhouse not said here		the sides of the fastest express train	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from side=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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