The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 65

_To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet.

Who acts: Rosamund, one, eight dreadful dragons · What happens: tell, be, dedicate, make, bid, crouch · To what, where: tales, confident hope, book, one, humbleness · 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 (Rosamund, one, eight dreadful dragons), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Rosamund	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	3 Rosamund	case
3	Rosamund	Rosamund	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 dedicated	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chief	punct
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Rosamund	appos
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 those	case
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 chief	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 whom	case
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 those	nmod
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 tales	det
11	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 whom	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Book	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Book	det
16	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rosamund	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Dragons	case
18	Dragons	Dragons	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Book	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dedicated	cop
20	dedicated	dedicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 hope	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hope	det
23	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hope	amod
24	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dedicated	obl
25	that	that	ADP	_	26 she	case
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hope	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hope	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 days	case
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 days	det
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 one	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dedicate	punct
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 dedicate	aux
34	dedicate	dedicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dedicated	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 book	det
36	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dedicate	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 own	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 own	nmod:poss
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 own	advmod
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 book	nmod
41	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 dedicate	advcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 one	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 one	det
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 making	obl
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 bids	nsubj
46	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 bids	advmod
47	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 one	acl:relcl
48	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 dragons	nummod
49	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 dragons	amod
50	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 crouch	nsubj
51	crouch	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 bids	ccomp
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 humbleness	case
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 humbleness	det
54	humbleness	humbleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 crouch	obl
55	at	at	ADP	_	59 feet	case
56	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	59 feet	det
57	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 feet	amod
58	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 feet	amod
59	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 crouch	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 dedicated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		this tales					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is	present	Rosamund and the Book of Dragons			the confident hope that Dragons		dedicated property	tree rules
3	dedicate	future	Rosamund and the Book of Dragons not said here	a book of Dragons's own					vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent book=Theme
4	make	gerund	Rosamund and the Book of Dragons not said here		the one				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	bid	present	the one				now		tree rules
6	crouch	present	eight dreadful dragons			all humbleness		at that little brown feet	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in humbleness=Location

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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