The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 20

And off they all fluttered, and the white grouse flew off, and the sealskin dwarfs were all dead, and the fires went out, and George and Jane were left alone in the dark with the dragon!

Who acts: Millions, white grouse, sealskin dwarfs, fires · What happens: flutter, fly off, be, go out, leave · To what, where: George, dark

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Millions, white grouse, sealskin dwarfs, fires), 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	_	5 fluttered	cc
2	off	off	ADV	_	5 fluttered	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fluttered	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fluttered	advmod
5	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grouse	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grouse	amod
10	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fluttered	parataxis
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 flew	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dead	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dead	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dwarfs	det
16	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dwarfs	compound
17	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dead	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 dead	advmod
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flew	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fires	det
24	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fluttered	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 went	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 left	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 left	cc
29	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 left	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Jane	cc
31	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 George	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 left	aux:pass
33	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fluttered	parataxis
34	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 left	xcomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 dark	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dark	det
37	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 dragon	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dragon	det
40	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	Millions = million			off property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly off	past	the white grouse				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the sealskin dwarfs			all, dead property	tree rules
4	go out	past	the fires				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	leave	past · passive		George and Jane	the dark	with the dragon; alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=Location

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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