The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 58

And rising from within the cold coil of the frozen dragon the North Pole shot up like a pillar made of one great diamond, and every now and then it cracked a little, from sheer cold.

Who acts: rising, Pole · What happens: rise, freeze, shoot up, make, crack · To what, where: cold coil, pillar, little, sheer

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 (rising, Pole), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 shot	cc
2	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 shot	csubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 coil	case
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 coil	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coil	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coil	amod
7	coil	coil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rising	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 dragon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 dragon	amod
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coil	nmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pole	det
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Pole	compound
14	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dragon	appos
15	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 shot	compound:prt
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 pillar	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pillar	det
19	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shot	obl
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 pillar	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 diamond	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 diamond	nummod
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 diamond	amod
24	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cracked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cracked	cc
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 cracked	det
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 cracked	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cracked	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 cracked	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cracked	nsubj
32	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shot	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 little	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cracked	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sheer	punct
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 sheer	case
37	sheer	sheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cracked	obl
38	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sheer	amod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund			the cold coil of the frozen dragon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from coil=Initial_Location
2	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	shoot up	past	rising				like a pillar	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	participle		a pillar not said here			of one great diamond	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	crack	past	Pole	a little	sheer	now; then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=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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