The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 89

There were white rabbits and white hares and all sorts and sizes of white birds, and some larger creatures in the shadows of the hedges that Jane was sure were wolves and bears.

Who acts: white rabbits, hedges, larger creatures · What happens: be, shadow · To what, where: wolves, hedges

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 (white rabbits, hedges, larger creatures), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rabbits	amod
4	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hares	cc
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hares	amod
7	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rabbits	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sorts	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sorts	det
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rabbits	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sizes	cc
12	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rabbits	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 birds	case
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 birds	amod
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sizes	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wolves	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wolves	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 creatures	det
19	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 wolves	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 shadows	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shadows	det
23	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 creatures	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 hedges	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hedges	det
26	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shadows	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sure	nsubj
28	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sure	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	cop
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hedges	acl:relcl
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wolves	cop
32	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bears	cc
34	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 wolves	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	white rabbits and white hares and all sorts and sizes of white birds		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the hedges			sure property	tree rules
3	is a	past	some larger creatures in the shadows of the hedges	wolves and bears			tree rules
4	shadow			the hedges			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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