The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 94

All over it, on the black parts, and on the brown, and on the green, there was a network of green dragons.

Who acts: network · What happens: be · To what, where: green

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 (network), 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	All	all	ADV	_	8 parts	advmod
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 All	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 All	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 parts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parts	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parts	amod
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brown	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brown	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brown	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 brown	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brown	det
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 was	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 green	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 green	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 was	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 green	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brown	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 network	det
23	network	network	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 dragons	case
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dragons	amod
26	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 network	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 brown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a network of green dragons			the green; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on green=Location

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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