The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 45

When the dragon got to the end of the slide he crawled very slowly across the dark field beyond the field where there was a bonfire, next to the next-door garden at Forest Hill.

Who acts: dragon, sportsman · What happens: get, crawl, be · To what, where: dark field, bonfire

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 (dragon, sportsman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 crawled	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 slide	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 slide	det
10	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crawled	nsubj
12	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 slowly	advmod
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 crawled	advmod
15	across	across	ADP	_	18 field	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 field	det
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 field	amod
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crawled	obl
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	21 field	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 field	det
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bonfire	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 was	advmod
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bonfire	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bonfire	det
26	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crawled	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 garden	punct
28	next	next	ADV	_	34 garden	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	34 garden	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 garden	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 door	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 next	punct
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 garden	compound
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crawled	parataxis
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 Hill	case
36	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Hill	compound
37	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 garden	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the dragon			to the end of the slide		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result
2	crawl	past	sportsman		the dark field		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory
3	is a	past		a bonfire			beyond the field	tree rules

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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