The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 83

"It's like Indians," said George, and wanted to stop and look, but Jane pulled him on, and they passed by the bonfire and got through a gap in the hedge into another field--a dark one; and far away, beyond quite a number of other dark fields, the Northern Lights shone and sparkled and twinkled.

Who acts: Indians, Jane, George, Northern Lights · What happens: be, say, want, stop, look, pull on · To what, where: bonfire, gap · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Indians, Jane, George, Northern 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Indians	expl
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Indians	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Indians	case
5	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Indians	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Indians	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wanted	cc
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stop	mark
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stop	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pulled	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 pulled	cc
19	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 pulled	nsubj
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pulled	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pulled	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 passed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 passed	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 passed	nsubj
26	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 bonfire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bonfire	det
29	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 passed	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 got	cc
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 passed	conj
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 gap	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 gap	det
34	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hedge	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hedge	det
37	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gap	nmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 field	case
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 field	det
40	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obl
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 one	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 one	det
43	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 one	amod
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 field	appos
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 away	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 away	cc
47	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 away	advmod
48	away	away	ADV	_	26 passed	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 number	punct
50	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	53 number	case
51	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	53 number	det:predet
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 number	det
53	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 passed	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 fields	case
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 fields	amod
56	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 fields	amod
57	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 number	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 shone	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 Lights	det
60	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 Lights	amod
61	Lights	Light	PROPN	Number=Plur	62 shone	nsubj
62	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 fields	parataxis
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 sparkled	cc
64	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 shone	conj
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 twinkled	cc
66	twinkled	twinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 sparkled	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				like Indians	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Indians				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	Indians not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	Indians not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	look	infinitive	Indians not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	pull on	past	Jane	bonfire			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
7	pass	past	George			by the bonfire; beyond quite number of other dark fields	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bonfire=Location
8	get	past	George not said here		a gap in the hedge	into another field	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through gap=Initial_Location into field=Destination
9	shine	past	the Northern Lights				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
10	sparkle	past	the Northern Lights not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	twinkle	past	the Northern Lights not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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