The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 52

The fairy spears of light twinkled and gleamed: They were much prettier than the big, blaring, blazing bonfire that was smoking and flaming and spluttering in the next-door-but-one garden--prettier even than the colored fires at the Crystal Palace.

Who acts: fairy spears, bonfire · What happens: twinkle, gleam, be, blare, blaze, smoke · To what, where: light, bonfire, next door

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 (fairy spears, bonfire), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spears	det
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spears	amod
3	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 prettier	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 light	case
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spears	nmod
6	twinkled	twinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 light	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gleamed	cc
8	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 twinkled	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 prettier	punct
10	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prettier	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 prettier	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 prettier	advmod
13	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 big	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 big	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prettier	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blaring	punct
18	blaring	blare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 big	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 blazing	punct
20	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 blaring	conj
21	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blazing	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 smoking	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 smoking	aux
24	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 bonfire	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flaming	cc
26	flaming	flame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 smoking	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spluttering	cc
28	spluttering	splutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 blaring	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 door	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 next	punct
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spluttering	obl
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 prettier	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 prettier	cc
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 but	punct
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 garden	nummod
38	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 prettier	nsubj
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 prettier	punct
40	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 door	conj
41	even	even	ADV	_	45 fires	advmod
42	than	than	ADP	_	45 fires	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fires	det
44	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 fires	amod
45	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spluttering	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	49 Palace	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Palace	det
48	Crystal	Crystal	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Palace	compound
49	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 fires	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 prettier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	twinkle	participle		light not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gleam	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the fairy spears of light			pretty property	tree rules
4	be		the fairy spears of light not said here				tree rules
5	blare	gerund	the fairy spears of light not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	blaze	gerund	the fairy spears of light not said here	bonfire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bonfire=Theme
7	smoke	past · progressive	bonfire				vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	flame	gerund	bonfire not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	splutter	gerund	the fairy spears of light not said here		the next door	than the colored fires at the Crystal Palace	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in door=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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