The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 79

"We are the sealskin dwarfs," said the brown people, twisting their furry bodies in and out of the crowd like the changing glass in kaleidoscopes. "

Who acts: We, sealskin dwarfs · What happens: be, say, twist, change · To what, where: sealskin dwarfs, brown people, furry bodies · 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 (We, sealskin dwarfs), 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	_	6 dwarfs	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dwarfs	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dwarfs	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
5	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwarfs	compound
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dwarfs	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dwarfs	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
11	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 twisting	punct
14	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bodies	nmod:poss
16	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bodies	amod
17	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 twisting	obj
18	in	in	ADV	_	14 twisting	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crowd	cc
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 crowd	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 crowd	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 crowd	det
23	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twisting	conj
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 glass	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 glass	det
26	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 glass	amod
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crowd	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 kaleidoscopes	case
29	kaleidoscopes	kaleidoscope	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 glass	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 crowd	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 crowd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	We	the sealskin dwarfs	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the sealskin dwarfs	the brown people	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Topic
3	twist	gerund	the sealskin dwarfs not said here	dwarfs's furry bodies	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme
4	change	gerund			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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