The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 110

The little, sharp, many-colored flames sprang up like the stalks of dream lilies, but no heat came to the children, and they grew colder and colder.

Who acts: sharp colored flames, heat, flames · What happens: color, sprang up, come, grow

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 (sharp colored flames, heat, flames), 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	9 flames	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sharp	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 little	punct
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flames	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sharp	punct
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colored	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 many	punct
8	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flames	amod
9	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sprang	nsubj
10	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 sprang	compound:prt
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 stalks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stalks	det
14	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sprang	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 lilies	case
16	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lilies	compound
17	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stalks	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 heat	det
21	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grew	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
30	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 grew	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 colder	cc
32	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 colder	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	color	participle			vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sprang up	present	the sharp colored flames	like the stalks of dream lilies	tree rules
3	come	past	no heat	to the children	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location
4	grow	past	flames = flame	cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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