The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 58

As the Queen went in, keeping carefully in the middle of the arch, all the snakes lifted their wicked, flat heads and stared at her with their wicked, yellow eyes.

Who acts: snakes · What happens: go in, keep, lift, stare · To what, where: middle, wicked flat heads

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 (snakes), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Queen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keeping	punct
7	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	7 keeping	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeping	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 arch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arch	det
14	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 middle	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lifted	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 snakes	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snakes	det
18	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lifted	nsubj
19	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heads	nmod:poss
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heads	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wicked	punct
23	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heads	amod
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lifted	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stared	cc
26	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lifted	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stared	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
31	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wicked	punct
33	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stared	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	past				as the Queen	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	gerund			the middle of the arch	carefully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
3	lift	past	all snakes	snakes's wicked flat heads			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	stare	past	all snakes not said here			at arch; with snakes's wicked yellow eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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