The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 86

And just when George and Jane were starting for the North Pole, the Arctic regions had come down very nearly as far as Forest Hill, so that, as the children walked on, it grew colder and colder, and presently they saw that the fields were covered with snow, and there were great icicles hanging from all the hedges and gates.

Who acts: George, Arctic regions, children, Pole, regions, great icicles · What happens: start, come down, walk on, grow, see, cover · To what, where: fields, hedges · 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 (George, Arctic regions, children, Pole), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 starting	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	8 starting	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 starting	advmod
4	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 starting	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Jane	cc
6	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 George	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 starting	aux
8	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 Pole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pole	det
11	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pole	compound
12	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Pole	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 regions	det
15	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 regions	amod
16	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 starting	parataxis
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 nearly	advmod
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 come	advmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 Hill	case
25	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Hill	compound
26	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 far	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 grew	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 grew	mark
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 so	fixed
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 so	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 walked	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 walked	nsubj
34	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grew	advcl
35	on	on	ADV	_	34 walked	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 walked	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 grew	nsubj
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	conj
39	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 grew	xcomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 colder	cc
41	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 colder	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 saw	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 saw	cc
44	presently	presently	ADV	_	46 saw	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 saw	nsubj
46	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grew	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 covered	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 fields	det
49	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 covered	nsubj:pass
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 covered	aux:pass
51	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 saw	ccomp
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 snow	case
53	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 covered	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 were	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 were	cc
56	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	57 were	expl
57	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grew	conj
58	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 icicles	amod
59	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 were	nsubj
60	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 icicles	acl
61	from	from	ADP	_	64 hedges	case
62	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	64 hedges	det:predet
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 hedges	det
64	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 hanging	obl
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 gates	cc
66	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 hedges	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 starting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past · progressive	George and Jane				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	come down	past · perfect	the Arctic regions			for the North Pole; down, far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk on	past	the children				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	Pole			cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	regions = region			presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	cover	past · passive		the fields		with snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme
7	be	past	great icicles		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hang	gerund	great icicles not said here		all hedges and gates		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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