The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 83

Lionel ran upstairs at the last minute, and he kissed Nurse and said: "Thank you for washing me.

Who acts: Lionel · What happens: run, kiss, say, thank, wash · To what, where: Nurse, you, Lionel · 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 (Lionel), 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	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 minute	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 minute	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 minute	amod
7	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kissed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kissed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kissed	nsubj
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
12	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kissed	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kissed	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Thank	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Thank	punct
17	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 Thank	obj
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 washing	mark
20	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 Thank	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 washing	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Lionel			minute	upstairs property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kiss	past	Lionel	Nurse				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Lionel not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	wash in a quote	gerund		Lionel				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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