The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 87

There were six big taps labeled "Sunshine," "Wind," "Rain," "Snow," "Hail," "Ice," and a lot of little ones, labeled "Fair to moderate," "Showery," "South breeze," "Nice growing weather for the crops," "Skating," "Good open weather," "South wind," "East wind," and so on.

Who acts: Wind, Rain · What happens: label, be, hail, moderate, grow · To what, where: six big taps, Sunshine, Rain, weather

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 (Wind, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Rain	cop
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 taps	nummod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taps	amod
5	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	labeled	label	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 taps	acl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Sunshine	punct
8	Sunshine	Sunshine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 labeled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Wind	punct
12	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Rain	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Wind	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Wind	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Rain	punct
16	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Hail	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Rain	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Rain	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Snow	punct
20	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Hail	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Snow	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Snow	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Hail	punct
24	Hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ice	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Hail	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Hail	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
28	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 wind	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lot	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lot	det
33	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ice	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 ones	case
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ones	amod
36	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lot	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 labeled	punct
38	labeled	label	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 Ice	parataxis
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 Fair	punct
40	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 labeled	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 moderate	mark
42	moderate	moderate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 Fair	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 Showery	punct
46	Showery	Showery	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Ice	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 breeze	punct
50	South	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 breeze	amod
51	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ice	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 breeze	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 breeze	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 Nice	punct
55	Nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 breeze	parataxis
56	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 Nice	xcomp
57	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 growing	obj
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 crops	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 crops	det
60	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 growing	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	64 Skating	punct
64	Skating	skating	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ice	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	70 weather	punct
68	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 weather	amod
69	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 weather	amod
70	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ice	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
72	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Ice	punct
73	"	"	PUNCT	_	75 wind	punct
74	South	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 wind	amod
75	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 wind	nsubj
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 wind	punct
77	"	"	PUNCT	_	75 wind	punct
78	"	"	PUNCT	_	79 East	punct
79	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	80 wind	compound
80	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 wind	punct
82	"	"	PUNCT	_	80 wind	punct
83	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 on	cc
84	so	so	ADV	_	85 on	advmod
85	on	on	ADV	_	80 wind	conj
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	80 wind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	label	participle		six big taps not said here	Sunshine		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sunshine=Destination
2	is a in a quote	past	Wind	Rain			tree rules
3	hail in a quote		Rain				tree rules
4	label	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	moderate in a quote	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	grow in a quote	gerund		weather		for the crops	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent weather=Product for crop=Beneficiary

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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