The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 105

They only saw the long lines of frosted trees and the starry lamps, and on each side, rushing back as they slid on, a very broad, white world and a very large, black night; and overhead as well as in the trees the stars were bright like silver lamps, and far ahead shone and trembled and sparkled the line of fairy spears.

Who acts: George, stars · What happens: see, frost, rush back, slide, be, shine · To what, where: long lines, side, broad white world, trees, line

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, stars), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lines	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lines	amod
6	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	frosted	frost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lines	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lamps	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lamps	det
12	starry	starry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lamps	amod
13	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trees	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 side	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 side	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 side	det
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rushing	punct
20	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 rushing	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 slid	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slid	nsubj
24	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rushing	advcl
25	on	on	ADV	_	24 slid	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 world	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 world	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 broad	advmod
29	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 world	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broad	punct
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 world	amod
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slid	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 night	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 night	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 large	advmod
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 night	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 large	punct
38	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 night	amod
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 world	conj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 as	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 as	cc
42	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	43 as	advmod
43	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	3 saw	advmod
44	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 as	fixed
45	as	as	ADP	_	43 as	fixed
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 trees	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 trees	det
48	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 as	obl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 stars	det
50	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 bright	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 bright	cop
52	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 trees	acl:relcl
53	like	like	ADP	_	55 lamps	case
54	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lamps	compound
55	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 bright	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 shone	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 shone	cc
58	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	60 shone	advmod
59	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	60 shone	advmod
60	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 bright	conj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 trembled	cc
62	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 shone	conj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 sparkled	cc
64	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 trembled	conj
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 line	det
66	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 sparkled	obj
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 spears	case
68	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 spears	amod
69	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 line	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	George	the long lines of frosted trees and the starry lamps	each side		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Stimulus
2	frost	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	rush back	gerund	George not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	slide	past	George	a broad white world and a large black night			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the stars	the trees not said here		like silver lamps; bright property	tree rules
6	shine	participle	the stars not said here			ahead, far property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tremble	participle	the stars not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sparkle	participle	the stars not said here	the line of fairy spears			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme

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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