The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 1

The great slide went on and on, and the lights did not seem to come much nearer, and the white silence wrapped around them as they slid along the wide, icy path.

Who acts: great slide, lights · What happens: go, not seem, come, wrap, slide · To what, where: white silence, wide icy path

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great slide, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slide	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slide	amod
3	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seem	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lights	det
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seem	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seem	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 seem	advmod
14	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seem	xcomp
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 nearer	advmod
18	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 come	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 silence	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 silence	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 silence	det
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 silence	amod
23	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 silence	acl
25	around	around	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wrapped	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 slid	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 slid	nsubj
29	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wrapped	advcl
30	along	along	ADP	_	35 path	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 path	det
32	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 path	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wide	punct
34	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 path	amod
35	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 slid	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the great slide	the white silence			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not seem	past · do-support	the lights				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	come	to-infinitive	the lights not said here			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wrap	participle		the white silence not said here		around lights = light	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around they=Destination
5	slide	past	lights = light		the wide icy path		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory

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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