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The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 32

He moved slowly off, and the snow-wreaths that bound the children to the Pole gave way with a snap, and there was the dragon, crawling south--with Jane and George on his great, scaly, icy shining back.

Who acts: friend, snow wreaths · What happens: move, bound, give, be, crawl, shine back · To what, where: great, children, way, dragon

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 (friend, snow wreaths), 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

nsubjadvmodadvmodpunctccdetcompoundpunctnsubjnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasedetoblcsubjobjcasedetoblpunctccexplcopdetparataxispunctadvcladvmodpunctcaseoblccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctconjpunctconjadvcladvmodpunctrootHePRONmovedVERBslowlyADVoffADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETsnowNOUN-PUNCTwreathsNOUNthatPRONboundVERBtheDETchildrenNOUNtoADPtheDETPolePROPNgaveVERBwayNOUNwithADPaDETsnapNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtherePRONwasAUXtheDETdragonNOUN,PUNCTcrawlingVERBsouthADV--PUNCTwithADPJanePROPNandCCONJGeorgePROPNonADPhisPRONgreatADJ,PUNCTscalyADJ,PUNCTicyADJshiningVERBbackADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 movednsubj
2movedmoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3slowlyslowlyADV_4 offadvmod
4offoffADV_2 movedadvmod
5,,PUNCT_18 gavepunct
6andandCCONJ_18 gavecc
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 wreathsdet
8snowsnowNOUNNumber=Sing10 wreathscompound
9--PUNCT_8 snowpunct
10wreathswreathNOUNNumber=Plur18 gavensubj
11thatthatPRONPronType=Rel12 boundnsubj
12boundboundVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 wreathsacl:relcl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 childrendet
14childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur12 boundobj
15totoADP_17 Polecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Poledet
17PolePolePROPNNumber=Sing12 boundobl
18gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 dragoncsubj
19waywayNOUNNumber=Sing18 gaveobj
20withwithADP_22 snapcase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 snapdet
22snapsnapNOUNNumber=Sing18 gaveobl
23,,PUNCT_26 waspunct
24andandCCONJ_26 wascc
25theretherePRONPronType=Dem26 wasexpl
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 dragoncop
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 dragondet
28dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing2 movedparataxis
29,,PUNCT_30 crawlingpunct
30crawlingcrawlVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 movedadvcl
31southsouthADV_30 crawlingadvmod
32----PUNCT_34 Janepunct
33withwithADP_34 Janecase
34JaneJanePROPNNumber=Sing2 movedobl
35andandCCONJ_36 Georgecc
36GeorgeGeorgePROPNNumber=Sing34 Janeconj
37ononADP_39 greatcase
38hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 greatnmod:poss
39greatgreatADJDegree=Pos2 movedobl
40,,PUNCT_41 scalypunct
41scalyscalyADJDegree=Pos39 greatconj
42,,PUNCT_43 icypunct
43icyicyADJDegree=Pos39 greatconj
44shiningshineVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part43 icyadvcl
45backbackADV_44 shiningadvmod
46..PUNCT_2 movedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1movepastfriendfriend's greatwith Jane and George; off propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on great=Trajectory
2boundpresentthe snow wreathsthe childrento the Polevn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location child=Theme
3givepastthe snow wreathswaywith a snapvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4is apastthe dragontree rules
5crawlgerundfriend not said heresouth propertyvn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6shine backgerundfriend not said herevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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