The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 82

They got over the fence, which was very cold and white and shiny because it was beginning to freeze, and on the other side of the fence was somebody else's garden, so they got out of that as quickly as they could, and beyond that was a field where there was another big bonfire, with people standing around it who looked quite dark-skinned.

Who acts: George, fence, that, people · What happens: get, be, begin, freeze, get out, stand · To what, where: fence, garden, other side, big bonfire

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, fence, that, people), 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	over	over	ADP	_	5 fence	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fence	det
5	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cold	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cold	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 cold	advmod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fence	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 white	cc
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cold	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shiny	cc
14	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cold	conj
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 beginning	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beginning	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beginning	aux
18	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 got	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 freeze	mark
20	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 beginning	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 garden	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 garden	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 side	amod
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 garden	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 fence	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fence	det
29	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 garden	cop
31	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 garden	nmod:poss
32	else	else	ADV	_	31 somebody	advmod
33	's	's	PART	_	31 somebody	case
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
39	out	out	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 that	case
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 got	obl
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 quickly	advmod
43	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 could	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 could	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 quickly	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 bonfire	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 bonfire	cc
49	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	53 field	case
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 field	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 field	cop
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 field	det
53	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 bonfire	obl
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	56 was	advmod
55	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 was	expl
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 bonfire	cop
57	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	59 bonfire	det
58	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 bonfire	amod
59	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 people	punct
61	with	with	ADP	_	62 people	case
62	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 bonfire	appos
63	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	62 people	acl
64	around	around	ADP	_	65 it	case
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 standing	obl
66	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 looked	nsubj
67	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 people	acl:relcl
68	quite	quite	ADV	_	71 skinned	advmod
69	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 skinned	amod
70	-	-	PUNCT	_	69 dark	punct
71	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 looked	xcomp
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	George		the fence		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over fence=Destination
2	is	past	the fence			cold property	tree rules
3	be		the fence not said here				tree rules
4	be		the fence not said here				tree rules
5	begin	past · progressive	fence				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	freeze	to-infinitive	fence not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	is a	past		somebody's garden	the other side of the fence		tree rules
8	get out	past	George			of that; out, quickly property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of that=Source
9	is	past	that			beyond a field	tree rules
10	is a	past		another big bonfire			tree rules
11	stand	gerund	people not said here		fence		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location
12	look	past	people			skinned property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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