The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 41

They went very fast, because dragons can go uphill as easily as down.

Who acts: George, dragons · What happens: go

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 (George, dragons), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
7	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
10	uphill	uphill	ADV	_	12 easily	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 easily	advmod
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 down	case
14	down	down	ADV	_	12 easily	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	George					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	can	dragons					easily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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