The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 181

Perhaps she did more than anyone else, for she slapped the King and put him to bed without his tea, and when it got dark she would not give him a candle to read by.

Who acts: Nurse, tea · What happens: do, slap, put, get, not give, read · To what, where: more, King, candle

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 (Nurse, tea), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 did	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 more	obl
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 anyone	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slapped	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 slapped	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slapped	nsubj
11	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 slapped	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 slapped	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 tea	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tea	nmod:poss
21	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 got	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 got	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 got	xcomp
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 give	advmod
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 got	ccomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 candle	det
34	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 read	mark
36	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 candle	acl
37	by	by	ADP	_	36 read	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Nurse	more		perhaps property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
2	slap	past	Nurse	the King			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Instrument
3	put	infinitive	Nurse not said here		King	to bed; without King's tea	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
4	get	past	tea			dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not give	would	Nurse	a candle	King		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient candle=Theme
6	read	to-infinitive	Nurse not said here	a candle not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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