The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 72

Then she made haste to change his smock and to wash his face and hands and brush his hair, and all the time she was doing it Lionel kept wriggling and fidgeting and saying, "Oh, don't, Nurse," and, "I'm sure my ears are quite clean," or, "Never mind my hair, it's all right," and, "That'll do."

Who acts: Nurse, haste, Lionel, ears, hair, That · What happens: make, change, wash, brush, do, keep · To what, where: haste, smock, face, hair · 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 (Nurse, haste, Lionel, ears), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 change	mark
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 smock	nmod:poss
8	smock	smock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wash	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wash	mark
11	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 change	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wash	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hands	cc
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 face	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brush	cc
17	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wash	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brush	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kept	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 time	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kept	obl:unmarked
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doing	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 doing	aux
27	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 time	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doing	obj
29	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 kept	nsubj
30	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
31	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 kept	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fidgeting	cc
33	fidgeting	fidget	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 wriggling	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 saying	cc
35	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 wriggling	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 do	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 do	punct
38	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	40 do	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Oh	punct
40	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 kept	parataxis
41	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 do	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Nurse	punct
43	Nurse	nurse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 do	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sure	cc
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 and	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 sure	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 sure	nsubj
50	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 sure	cop
51	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	conj
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 ears	nmod:poss
53	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 clean	nsubj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 clean	cop
55	quite	quite	ADV	_	56 clean	advmod
56	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 sure	ccomp
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 clean	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 clean	punct
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 mind	cc
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 or	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 mind	punct
62	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	63 mind	advmod
63	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 clean	conj
64	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 hair	nmod:poss
65	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 mind	obj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 right	punct
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 right	nsubj
68	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	70 right	cop
69	all	all	ADV	_	70 right	advmod
70	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 sure	parataxis
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 right	punct
72	"	"	PUNCT	_	70 right	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 do	cc
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 and	punct
75	"	"	PUNCT	_	78 do	punct
76	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	78 do	nsubj
77	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	78 do	aux
78	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 sure	conj
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
80	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Nurse	haste	then		tree rules
2	change	to-infinitive	haste not said here	Lionel's smock			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smock=Patient
3	wash	to-infinitive	haste not said here	Lionel's face and hands			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
4	brush	infinitive	haste not said here	Lionel's hair			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
5	do	past · progressive	Nurse	hair			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	keep	past	Lionel		time		tree rules
7	wriggle	gerund	Lionel not said here				vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fidget	gerund	Lionel not said here				vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	gerund	Lionel not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	not do in a quote	infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	nurse in a quote	infinitive					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
12	is in a quote	present	Lionel			sure property	tree rules
13	is in a quote	present	my ears			clean property	tree rules
14	not mind in a quote	infinitive	my ears not said here	my hair			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
15	is in a quote	present	hair			all, right property	tree rules
16	do in a quote	future	That				vn act-114-1 «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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