The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 54

It must have gone to sleep curled around the hole where the warm steam used to come up from the middle of the earth, and then when the earth got colder, and the column of steam froze and was turned into the North Pole, the dragon must have got frozen in his sleep--frozen too hard to move--and there he stayed.

Who acts: lump, earth, column, dragon · What happens: go, sleep, curl, use, come up, get · To what, where: hole, warm steam, middle, North Pole, sleep

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 (lump, earth, column, dragon), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	advcl
7	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sleep	xcomp
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 hole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hole	det
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curled	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	10 hole	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 steam	det
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 steam	amod
14	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 where	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 steam	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	advcl
18	up	up	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 earth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 earth	det
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 middle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 got	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 got	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 got	advmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 got	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	nsubj
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
32	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 got	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 froze	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 froze	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 column	det
36	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 froze	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 steam	case
38	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 column	nmod
39	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 got	parataxis
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 turned	cc
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 turned	aux:pass
42	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 froze	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	46 Pole	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Pole	det
45	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Pole	compound
46	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 turned	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 got	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 dragon	det
49	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 got	nsubj
50	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 got	aux
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 got	aux
52	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 turned	conj
53	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 got	xcomp
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 sleep	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 sleep	nmod:poss
56	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 frozen	obl
57	--	--	PUNCT	_	58 frozen	punct
58	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 got	conj
59	too	too	ADV	_	60 hard	advmod
60	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 frozen	advcl
61	to	to	PART	_	62 move	mark
62	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 hard	xcomp
63	--	--	PUNCT	_	67 stayed	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 stayed	cc
65	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	67 stayed	advmod
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 stayed	nsubj
67	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must · perfect	lump					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	lump not said here					tree rules
3	curl	participle	lump not said here		the hole			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around hole=Destination
4	use	participle		the warm steam not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come up	to-infinitive			the middle of the earth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from middle=Initial_Location
6	get	past	the earth			then	cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	freeze	past	the column of steam					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	turn	past · passive	the column of steam not said here				into the North Pole result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: into pole=Result
9	get	must · perfect	the dragon					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	freeze	participle	the dragon not said here		dragon's sleep			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	freeze	participle	the dragon not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
12	move	to-infinitive	the dragon not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
13	stay	past	dragon		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
14	sleep		dragon					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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