The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 111
And I am very busy sewing silk flowers on a golden gown for my wedding day.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, sew · To what, where: silk flowers, golden gown
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 busy | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 busy | advmod |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 busy | advcl |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowers | compound |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sewing | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 gown | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gown | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gown | amod |
| 12 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sewing | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 day | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sewing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sew | gerund | I not said here | silk flowers | a golden gown | day | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme on gown=Destination |
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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