The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 27

When the great white Arctic moth had returned thanks in a suitable speech, George and Jane took a sideways slanting run and started sliding again, between the star-lamps along the great slide toward the North Pole.

Who acts: thanks · What happens: return, take, slant, start, slide · To what, where: great white Arctic moth, slanting run, star lamps

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 (thanks), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moth	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moth	amod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moth	amod
5	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moth	amod
6	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 returned	aux
8	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 took	advcl
9	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 speech	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 speech	det
12	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 speech	amod
13	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thanks	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 George	punct
15	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 speech	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Jane	cc
17	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 George	conj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 run	det
20	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	21 slanting	advmod
21	slanting	slant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 run	amod
22	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 started	cc
24	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
25	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 started	xcomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 sliding	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lamps	punct
28	between	between	ADP	_	32 lamps	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lamps	det
30	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lamps	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 star	punct
32	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sliding	obl
33	along	along	ADP	_	36 slide	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 slide	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 slide	amod
36	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lamps	nmod
37	toward	toward	ADP	_	40 Pole	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Pole	det
39	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Pole	compound
40	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 slide	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past · perfect · passive		the great white Arctic moth				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	take	past	thanks in a suitable speech	a slanting run				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Theme
3	slant	gerund					sideways property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	start	past	thanks in a suitable speech not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	slide	gerund	thanks in a suitable speech not said here		the star lamps along the great slide toward the North Pole	again		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between lamp=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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