The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

"Tumble for your life!" cried George, and tumbled as before, stopping in the only possible way, and Jane stopped on top of him, and they crawled to the edge and came suddenly on a butterfly collector, who was looking for specimens with a pair of blue glasses and a blue net and a blue book with colored plates.

Who acts: George, Jane, bits, butterfly collector · What happens: tumble, cry, stop, crawl, come, look · To what, where: only possible way, top, edge, butterfly collector · 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 (George, Jane, bits, butterfly collector), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tumble	punct
2	Tumble	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 life	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tumble	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Tumble	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tumble	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tumbled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tumbled	cc
12	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cried	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 before	case
14	before	before	ADV	_	12 tumbled	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stopping	punct
16	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tumbled	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
19	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
20	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stopping	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stopped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stopped	cc
24	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 stopped	nsubj
25	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 top	case
27	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stopped	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 top	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 crawled	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 crawled	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 crawled	nsubj
33	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 edge	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 edge	det
36	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crawled	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 crawled	conj
39	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 collector	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 collector	det
42	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 collector	compound
43	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 looking	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 looking	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 looking	aux
47	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 collector	acl
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 specimens	case
49	specimens	specimen	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 looking	obl
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 pair	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 pair	det
52	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 looking	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 glasses	case
54	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 glasses	amod
55	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 pair	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 net	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 net	det
58	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 net	amod
59	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 glasses	conj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 book	cc
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 book	det
62	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 book	amod
63	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 net	conj
64	with	with	ADP	_	66 plates	case
65	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 plates	amod
66	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 book	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	tumble in a quote	infinitive			for your life	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cry speech: express	past	George			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tumble	participle	George not said here		before property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	stop	gerund	George not said here	the only possible way		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
5	stop	past	Jane	top of George		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	crawl	past	bits = bit	the edge		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination
7	come	past	bits = bit not said here	a butterfly collector	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on collector=Location
8	look	past · progressive	a butterfly collector		for specimens; with a pair of blue glasses and a blue net and a blue book with colored plates	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for specimen=Theme

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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