The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 180
The faithful Nurse, meanwhile, did not neglect her duty.
Who acts: faithful Nurse · What happens: not neglect · To what, where: duty
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 (faithful Nurse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nurse | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Nurse | amod |
| 3 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neglect | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nurse | punct |
| 5 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 neglect | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 meanwhile | punct |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 neglect | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 neglect | advmod |
| 9 | neglect | neglect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 duty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neglect | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 neglect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not neglect | past · do-support | the faithful Nurse | Nurse's duty | meanwhile property | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=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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