The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 109

The sealskin dwarfs tied George and Jane to the North Pole, and, as they had no ropes, they bound them with snow-wreaths, which are very strong when they are made in the proper way, and they heaped up the fires very close and said: "Now the dragon will get warm, and when he gets warm he will wake, and when he wakes he will be hungry, and when he is hungry he will begin to eat, and the first thing he will eat will be you."

Who acts: sealskin dwarfs, dwarfs, snow wreaths, dragon, first thing · What happens: tie, have, bound, be, make, heap up · To what, where: George, ropes, dwarfs, proper way, fires, first thing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sealskin dwarfs, dwarfs, snow wreaths, dragon), 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 dwarfs	det
2	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dwarfs	compound
3	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	nsubj
4	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Jane	cc
7	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 George	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Pole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pole	det
10	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Pole	compound
11	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bound	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bound	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bound	advcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 ropes	det
19	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bound	nsubj
22	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bound	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 wreaths	case
25	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wreaths	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 snow	punct
27	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bound	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 strong	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 strong	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 strong	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 strong	advmod
32	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wreaths	amod
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 made	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 made	aux:pass
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 strong	advcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 way	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
39	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 way	amod
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 heaped	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 heaped	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 heaped	nsubj
44	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	conj
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 heaped	compound:prt
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 fires	det
47	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 heaped	obj
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 close	advmod
49	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fires	amod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 said	cc
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 heaped	conj
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	58 get	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 get	punct
54	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	58 get	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 dragon	det
56	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 get	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 get	aux
58	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 said	ccomp
59	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 get	xcomp
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 gets	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 gets	cc
62	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	64 gets	advmod
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 gets	nsubj
64	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 get	advcl
65	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 gets	xcomp
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 wake	nsubj
67	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 wake	aux
68	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 gets	acl:relcl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 wakes	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 wakes	cc
71	when	when	SCONJ	_	73 wakes	mark
72	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 wakes	nsubj
73	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 gets	conj
74	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 hungry	nsubj
75	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	77 hungry	aux
76	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	77 hungry	cop
77	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 wakes	ccomp
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 begin	punct
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	86 begin	cc
80	when	when	SCONJ	_	83 hungry	mark
81	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	83 hungry	nsubj
82	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	83 hungry	cop
83	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	86 begin	advcl
84	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 begin	nsubj
85	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	86 begin	aux
86	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 get	advcl
87	to	to	PART	_	88 eat	mark
88	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	86 begin	xcomp
89	,	,	PUNCT	_	99 you	punct
90	and	and	CCONJ	_	99 you	cc
91	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	93 thing	det
92	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	93 thing	amod
93	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	99 you	nsubj
94	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	96 eat	nsubj
95	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	96 eat	aux
96	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	93 thing	acl:relcl
97	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	99 you	aux
98	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	99 you	cop
99	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tied	obl
100	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tied	punct
101	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the sealskin dwarfs	George and Jane			to the North Pole	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent george=Patient to pole=Co-Patient
2	have	past	dwarfs = dwarf	no ropes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
3	bound	present	dwarfs = dwarf	ropes = rope			with snow wreaths	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme
4	is	present	snow wreaths				strong property	tree rules
5	make	present · passive		dwarfs = dwarf	the proper way			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
6	heap up	past	dwarfs = dwarf	the fires				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	get in a quote	future	the dragon			now	warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	get in a quote	present	dragon				warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
10	wake in a quote	future	dragon					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	wake in a quote	present	dragon					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
12	is in a quote	future	dragon				hungry property	tree rules
13	is in a quote	present	dragon				hungry property	tree rules
14	begin in a quote	future	dragon					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
15	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	dragon not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
16	eat in a quote	future	dragon	the first thing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
17	is a in a quote	future	the first thing	you				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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