The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 28

The fact was, the sealskin dwarfs had gone the wrong way to work: The dragon had been frozen so long that now he was nothing but solid ice all through, and the fires only made him feel as if he were going to die.

Who acts: fact, friend, fires · What happens: be, work, freeze, make, feel, go · To what, where: dragon, nothing, friend

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 (fact, friend, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarfs	det
6	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dwarfs	compound
7	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 work	mark
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	acl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 frozen	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dragon	det
17	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 frozen	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 frozen	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 frozen	aux:pass
20	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gone	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 frozen	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 through	mark
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 nothing	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 nothing	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nothing	cop
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 through	nsubj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 ice	cc
29	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ice	amod
30	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 through	advmod
32	through	through	ADV	_	20 frozen	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 made	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 made	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fires	det
36	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 made	nsubj
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 made	advmod
38	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 frozen	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 made	obj
40	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 made	xcomp
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 going	mark
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 going	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 going	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 going	aux
45	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 feel	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 die	mark
47	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 going	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the fact			go property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the fact not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	freeze	past · perfect · passive		the dragon		long property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	is a	past	friend	nothing	now		tree rules
5	make	past	the fires	friend			tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	friend not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	go	past · progressive	friend				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	die	to-infinitive	friend not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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