The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 65

The dancing-ring broke up suddenly, and the next moment hundreds of furry arms clutched at George and Jane, and they found themselves in the middle of a great, soft, heaving crowd of little fat people in brown fur dresses, and the white silence was quite gone.

Who acts: dancing ring, boots, little fat people, white silence · What happens: break up, clutch, find, heave, dress, be · To what, where: next moment hundreds, furry arms, boots, middle, brown fur

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 (dancing ring, boots, little fat people, white silence), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dancing	punct
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 broke	compound:prt
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 broke	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hundreds	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hundreds	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hundreds	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hundreds	amod
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hundreds	compound
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broke	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 arms	amod
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hundreds	nmod
17	clutched	clutch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 arms	acl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 George	case
19	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 clutched	obl:agent
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Jane	cc
21	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 George	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	parataxis
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 found	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 middle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 middle	det
29	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	37 crowd	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 crowd	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 crowd	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 great	punct
34	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 crowd	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 soft	punct
36	heaving	heave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 crowd	amod
37	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 middle	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 people	case
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 people	amod
40	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 people	amod
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 crowd	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 fur	case
43	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 fur	amod
44	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dresses	obl
45	dresses	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 people	acl:relcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 gone	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 gone	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 silence	det
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 silence	amod
50	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 gone	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 gone	cop
52	quite	quite	ADV	_	53 gone	advmod
53	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 found	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break up	past	the dancing ring	the next moment hundreds of furry arms		suddenly property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	clutch	participle		furry arms not said here			vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	boots = boot	boots = boot	the middle of a great soft heaving crowd of little fat people		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
4	heave	gerund					vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	dress	present	little fat people not said here		brown fur		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the white silence			gone property	tree rules

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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