The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 32

All around the Pole, making a bright ring about it, were hundreds of little fires, and the flames of them did not flicker and twist, but went up blue and green and rosy and straight like the stalks of dream lilies.

Who acts: Pole, hundreds, flames · What happens: make, be, not flicker, twist, go up, flame · To what, where: bright ring, hundreds

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 (Pole, hundreds, 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	All	all	ADV	_	4 Pole	advmod
2	around	around	ADP	_	4 Pole	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pole	det
4	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hundreds	nmod:poss
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 making	punct
6	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Pole	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ring	det
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ring	amod
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ring	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Pole	punct
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hundreds	cop
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flicker	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fires	case
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fires	amod
17	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hundreds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flicker	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flicker	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flames	det
21	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flicker	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flames	nmod
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flicker	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 flicker	advmod
26	flicker	flicker	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 twist	cc
28	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 flicker	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flicker	parataxis
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 went	compound:prt
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 went	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 green	cc
35	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 blue	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 rosy	cc
37	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 blue	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 stalks	cc
39	straight	straight	ADV	_	42 stalks	advmod
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 stalks	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 stalks	det
42	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 went	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 lilies	case
44	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lilies	compound
45	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 stalks	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 flicker	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	the Pole not said here	a bright ring	about Pole	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product
2	is a	past		the Pole's hundreds	of little fires	tree rules
3	not flicker	past · do-support	the Pole's hundreds			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	twist	infinitive	the Pole's hundreds not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	go up	past			blue property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	flame		flames = flame			nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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