The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

And they saw the whole of England, like a great puzzle map--green in the field parts and brown in the towns, and black in the places where they make coal and crockery and cutlery and chemicals.

Who acts: dragons · What happens: see, make · To what, where: whole, coal

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 (dragons), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 saw	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whole	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 whole	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 map	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 map	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 map	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 map	amod
12	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 map	compound
13	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 green	punct
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 map	amod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 parts	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 parts	det
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 parts	compound
19	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 green	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brown	cc
21	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 parts	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 towns	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 towns	det
24	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 brown	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 black	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 black	cc
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 places	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 places	det
30	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 black	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 make	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	nsubj
33	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 places	acl:relcl
34	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 make	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 crockery	cc
36	crockery	crockery	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coal	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cutlery	cc
38	cutlery	cutlery	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coal	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 chemicals	cc
40	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 coal	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	dragons = dragon	the whole					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whole=Stimulus
2	make	present	dragons = dragon	coal and crockery and cutlery and chemicals					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coal=Product

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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