The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 91

There was a great hedge at the end of this field, all covered with snow and icicles; but the children found a place where there was a hole, and as no bears or wolves seemed to be just in that part of the hedge, they crept through and scrambled out of the frozen ditch on the other side.

Who acts: great hedge, field, children, bears · What happens: be, cover, find, seem, creep, scramble · To what, where: end, all, place, part, frozen ditch · 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 (great hedge, field, children, bears), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hedge	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hedge	amod
5	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 covered	nsubj:pass
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 field	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 snow	case
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 icicles	cc
18	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 snow	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 was	advmod
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 place	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hole	det
30	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seemed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seemed	cc
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 bears	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 bears	det
35	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 seemed	nsubj
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 wolves	cc
37	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bears	conj
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	44 part	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 part	cop
41	just	just	ADV	_	44 part	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 part	case
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 part	det
44	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seemed	xcomp
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 hedge	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hedge	det
47	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 part	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 crept	punct
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 crept	nsubj
50	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 seemed	parataxis
51	through	through	ADV	_	50 crept	advmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 scrambled	cc
53	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 crept	conj
54	out	out	ADP	_	58 ditch	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 ditch	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 ditch	det
57	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 ditch	amod
58	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 scrambled	obl
59	on	on	ADP	_	62 side	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 side	det
61	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 side	amod
62	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 ditch	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a great hedge		there	at the end of this field		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	cover	participle · passive	this field not said here	all			with snow and icicles	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme
3	find	past	the children	a place				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Attribute clause=Theme
4	seem	past	no bears or wolves					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	no bears or wolves not said here		that part		of the hedge	tree rules
6	creep	past	children = child				through property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	scramble	past	children = child not said here		the frozen ditch on the other side			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out ditch=Trajectory
8	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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