The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 28

They went faster and faster, and the lights ahead grew brighter and brighter--so that they could not keep their eyes open, but had to blink and wink as they went--and then suddenly the great slide ended in an immense heap of snow, and George and Jane shot right into it because they could not stop themselves, and the snow was soft, so that they went in up to their very ears.

Who acts: moth, lights, great slide, George, snow · What happens: go, grow, not keep, have, blink, wink · To what, where: eyes, immense heap, slide, moth

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 (moth, lights, great slide, George), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 faster	cc
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 faster	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lights	det
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grew	nsubj
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	11 grew	advmod
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
12	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 grew	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brighter	cc
14	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 brighter	conj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 keep	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 keep	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 keep	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 keep	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 keep	advmod
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grew	advcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 keep	obj
24	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keep	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 blink	mark
29	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wink	cc
31	wink	wink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 blink	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 went	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wink	advcl
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 ended	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ended	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 ended	advmod
38	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	41 slide	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 slide	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 slide	amod
41	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ended	nsubj
42	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 heap	case
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 heap	det
45	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 heap	amod
46	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ended	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 snow	case
48	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heap	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 shot	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 shot	cc
51	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 shot	nsubj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 Jane	cc
53	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 George	conj
54	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
55	right	right	ADV	_	57 it	advmod
56	into	into	ADP	_	57 it	case
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 shot	obl
58	because	because	SCONJ	_	62 stop	mark
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 stop	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 stop	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 stop	advmod
62	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 shot	advcl
63	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	62 stop	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 soft	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 soft	cc
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 snow	det
67	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 soft	nsubj
68	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 soft	cop
69	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 shot	conj
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 went	punct
71	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	74 went	mark
72	that	that	SCONJ	_	71 so	fixed
73	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 went	nsubj
74	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 shot	conj
75	in	in	ADV	_	74 went	advmod
76	up	up	ADV	_	74 went	advmod
77	to	to	ADP	_	80 ears	case
78	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	80 ears	nmod:poss
79	very	very	ADV	_	80 ears	advmod
80	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 went	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	moth				fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the lights				ahead, bright property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not keep	could	moth	moth's eyes			open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	have	past	moth not said here					tree rules
5	blink	to-infinitive	moth not said here					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wink	infinitive	moth not said here					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	moth					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	end	past	the great slide		a immense heap of snow	then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	shoot	past	George and Jane		slide			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into it=Destination
10	not stop	could	moth	moth				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality themselves=Eventuality
11	is	past	the snow				soft property	tree rules
12	go up	past	moth				to moth's ears	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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