The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 118

They fell on George and Jane like snowflakes, and, like flakes of fallen snow lying one above another, they grew into a thicker and thicker covering, so that presently the children were buried under a heap of white feathers, and only their faces peeped out.

Who acts: hundreds, fallen snow, faces · What happens: fall, lie, grow, bury, peep out · To what, where: George, one, another, thicker covering, children, heap

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 (hundreds, fallen snow, faces), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 George	case
4	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Jane	cc
6	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 George	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 snowflakes	case
8	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 flakes	case
13	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grew	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 snow	case
15	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 snow	amod
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flakes	nmod
17	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 snow	acl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 lying	obj
19	above	above	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flakes	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	29 covering	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 covering	det
26	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 covering	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thicker	cc
28	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 thicker	conj
29	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 buried	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 buried	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	presently	presently	ADV	_	35 children	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 children	det
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 buried	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 buried	aux:pass
37	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 grew	conj
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 heap	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 heap	det
40	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 buried	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 feathers	case
42	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 feathers	amod
43	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 heap	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 peeped	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 peeped	cc
46	only	only	ADV	_	48 faces	advmod
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 faces	nmod:poss
48	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 peeped	nsubj
49	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	conj
50	out	out	ADP	_	49 peeped	compound:prt
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	hundreds = hundred		George and Jane	like snowflakes	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on george=Location
2	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	gerund	fallen snow not said here	one	another		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
4	grow	past	hundreds = hundred			into a thicker covering result; like flakes of fallen snow	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into covering=Result
5	bury	past · passive		the children	a heap of white feathers		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under heap=Destination
6	peep out	participle	hundreds's faces				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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