The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 173

Put him to bed, Nurse, and let him think over what he's done."

Who acts: you, King · What happens: put, let, think, do · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, King), 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	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Nurse	punct
6	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	over	over	SCONJ	_	16 done	mark
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 done	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 done	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 think	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		King	to bed and Nurse	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	King			tree rules
3	think speech: other	infinitive	King not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	present · passive	King				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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