The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 47

So Jane came on; and when they got close to the clear, tall, beautiful flames they saw that there was a great, queer-shaped lump of ice all around the bottom of the Pole--clear, smooth, shining ice, that was deep, beautiful Prussian blue, like icebergs, in the thick parts, and all sorts of wonderful, glimmery, shimmery, changing colors in the thin parts, like the cut-glass chandelier in Grandmamma's house in London.

Who acts: Jane, robins, great queer shaped lump, that · What happens: come on, get, see, be, shape, shine · To what, where: thick parts, clear tall beautiful flames, ice, colors, thin parts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jane, robins, great queer shaped lump, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 got	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	18 flames	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flames	det
13	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flames	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clear	punct
15	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flames	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tall	punct
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flames	amod
18	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flames	acl:relcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lump	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lump	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 great	punct
27	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lump	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 queer	punct
29	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 lump	amod
30	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 ice	case
32	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lump	nmod
33	all	all	ADV	_	36 bottom	advmod
34	around	around	ADP	_	36 bottom	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bottom	det
36	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ice	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Pole	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Pole	det
39	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 bottom	nmod
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 clear	punct
41	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bottom	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 smooth	punct
43	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 clear	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 shining	punct
45	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 clear	advcl
46	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shining	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 deep	punct
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 deep	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 deep	cop
50	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 beautiful	punct
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 deep	conj
53	Prussian	prussian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 blue	amod
54	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 deep	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 icebergs	punct
56	like	like	ADP	_	57 icebergs	case
57	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 parts	punct
59	in	in	ADP	_	62 parts	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 parts	det
61	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 parts	amod
62	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 wonderful	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 wonderful	cc
65	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 sorts	det
66	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 wonderful	nsubj
67	of	of	ADP	_	68 wonderful	case
68	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 glimmery	punct
70	glimmery	glimmery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 wonderful	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 shimmery	punct
72	shimmery	shimmery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 wonderful	conj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 changing	punct
74	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	68 wonderful	advcl
75	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 changing	obj
76	in	in	ADP	_	79 parts	case
77	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 parts	det
78	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 parts	amod
79	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 changing	obl
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 chandelier	punct
81	like	like	ADP	_	86 chandelier	case
82	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	86 chandelier	det
83	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 glass	compound
84	-	-	PUNCT	_	83 cut	punct
85	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 chandelier	compound
86	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 parts	appos
87	in	in	ADP	_	90 house	case
88	Grandmamma	Grandmamma	PROPN	Number=Sing	90 house	nmod:poss
89	's	's	PART	_	88 Grandmamma	case
90	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 chandelier	nmod
91	in	in	ADP	_	92 London	case
92	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	90 house	nmod
93	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come on	past	Jane		the thick parts	like icebergs	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location
2	get	past	robins = robin			to the clear tall beautiful flames result; close property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to flame=Result
3	see	past	robins = robin	the clear tall beautiful flames not said here			tree rules
4	be	past	a great queer shaped lump of ice and the bottom of the Pole		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	shine	gerund	a great queer shaped lump of ice and the bottom of the Pole not said here	ice			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ice=Theme
7	is	past	that			deep property	tree rules
8	be		that not said here				tree rules
9	be		that not said here				tree rules
10	change	gerund	Jane not said here	colors	the thin parts		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient

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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