The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 114

Jane fell on top of him--and then they crawled on hands and knees to the snow at the edge of the slide--and there was a sportsman, dressed in a peaked cap and a frozen moustache, like the one you see in the pictures about Ice-Peter, and he had a gun in his hand.

Who acts: Jane, George, sportsman, you · What happens: fall, crawl, be, dress, peak, freeze · To what, where: top, hands, sportsman, peaked cap, pictures, gun

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 (Jane, George, sportsman, you), 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	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 top	case
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 top	nmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 crawled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crawled	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 crawled	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crawled	nsubj
11	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 hands	case
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crawled	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knees	cc
15	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hands	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 snow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snow	det
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crawled	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 edge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edge	det
21	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crawled	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 slide	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 slide	det
24	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 edge	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sportsman	det
30	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dressed	punct
32	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 sportsman	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 cap	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cap	det
35	peaked	peak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 cap	amod
36	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dressed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 moustache	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 moustache	det
39	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 moustache	amod
40	moustache	moustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cap	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct
42	like	like	ADP	_	44 one	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 one	det
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 see	obl
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 see	nsubj
46	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dressed	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 pictures	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 pictures	det
49	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 see	obl
50	about	about	ADP	_	53 Peter	case
51	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Peter	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 Ice	punct
53	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 pictures	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 had	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 had	cc
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 had	nsubj
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 gun	det
59	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 had	obj
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 hand	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 hand	nmod:poss
62	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 had	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Jane		top of cry			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location
2	crawl	past	George		hands and knees	then	to the snow; at the edge of the slide	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to snow=Destination
3	be	past	a sportsman		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dress	participle		a sportsman not said here	a peaked cap and a frozen moustache			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	peak	participle						tree rules
6	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	see	present	you		the pictures about Ice Peter		like the one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	have	past	sportsman	a gun	cry's hand			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient

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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