The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 38

They got up on the fence at the end of the garden to see better; and then they saw, very far away, where the edge of the dark world is, a shining line of straight, beautiful lights arranged in a row, as if they were the spears carried by a fairy army.

Who acts: children, straight beautiful lights · What happens: get up, see, shine, be, arrange, carry · To what, where: fence, shining line, row, spears

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 (children, straight beautiful lights), 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	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 got	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 fence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fence	det
6	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	advcl
15	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 see	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 saw	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 line	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 away	punct
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 away	advmod
24	away	away	ADV	_	20 saw	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 is	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 is	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 edge	det
28	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 is	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
31	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 world	amod
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 edge	nmod
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 line	cop
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 is	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 line	det
36	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 line	amod
37	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 lights	case
39	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lights	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 straight	punct
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lights	amod
42	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 arranged	nsubj
43	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 line	acl:relcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 row	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 row	det
46	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 arranged	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 spears	punct
48	as	as	ADP	_	53 spears	case
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 spears	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 spears	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 spears	cop
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 spears	det
53	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 arranged	obl
54	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 spears	acl
55	by	by	ADP	_	58 army	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 army	det
57	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 army	amod
58	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 carried	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	children = child		the fence	at the end of the garden		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fence=Source
2	see	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	past	children = child			then	away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present		a shining line				tree rules
6	arrange	past	straight beautiful lights	a shining line not said here	a row			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme in row=Destination
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	children = child				as the spears	tree rules
8	carry	participle		the spears not said here			by a fairy army	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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