The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 169
And they had been saving up so long to buy him a crown, and everything!
Who acts: subjects · What happens: save up, buy · To what, where: crown, Lionel
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subjects), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saving | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saving | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saving | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 saving | aux |
| 5 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 saving | compound:prt |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saving | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 buy | mark |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saving | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 buy | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crown | det |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buy | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 everything | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 everything | cc |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 saving | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 saving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save up | past · perfect · progressive | subjects = subject | long property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | subjects = subject not said here | a crown | Lionel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary crown=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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