The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 93

For in front of them, running straight and smooth right away to the Northern Lights, lay a great wide road of pure dark ice, and on each side were tall trees all sparkling with white frost, and from the boughs of the trees hung strings of stars threaded on fine moonbeams, and shining so brightly that it was like a beautiful fairy daylight.

Who acts: tall trees, boughs, road · What happens: run, smooth, lay, be, sparkle, hang · To what, where: great wide road, side, strings, stars

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 (tall trees, boughs, road), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 front	case
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 front	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 running	punct
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 front	conj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 running	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 smooth	cc
10	smooth	smooth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 running	conj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 smooth	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 Lights	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lights	det
15	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Lights	amod
16	Lights	Light	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 away	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 front	punct
18	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 road	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 road	amod
21	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 road	amod
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 ice	case
24	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ice	amod
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ice	amod
26	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 road	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 were	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 were	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 side	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 side	det
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 were	obl
32	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sparkling	advcl
33	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 trees	amod
34	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 were	nsubj
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 sparkling	advmod
36	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 lay	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 frost	case
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 frost	amod
39	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sparkling	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 hung	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hung	cc
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 boughs	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 boughs	det
44	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 hung	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 trees	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 trees	det
47	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 boughs	nmod
48	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lay	parataxis
49	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 hung	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 stars	case
51	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 strings	nmod
52	threaded	thread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 stars	acl
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 moonbeams	case
54	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 moonbeams	amod
55	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 threaded	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 shining	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 shining	cc
58	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 hung	conj
59	so	so	ADV	_	60 brightly	advmod
60	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	58 shining	advmod
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 daylight	mark
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 daylight	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 daylight	cop
64	like	like	ADP	_	68 daylight	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 daylight	det
66	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 daylight	amod
67	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 daylight	compound
68	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 shining	advcl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	gerund				straight property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	smooth	infinitive				away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lay	present		a great wide road of pure dark ice		for front of children	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent road=Result for front=Beneficiary
4	be	past	tall trees		each side		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
5	sparkle	gerund				with white frost; all property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with frost=Theme
6	hang	past	the boughs of the trees	strings of stars			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
7	thread	participle		stars not said here		on fine moonbeams	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on moonbeam=Co-Patient
8	shine	gerund	the boughs of the trees not said here			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	road			like a beautiful fairy daylight	tree rules

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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