The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 130

And just as he was feeling how much more important than anything else it is to be able to do your sums, the Princess came back.

Who acts: Nigel, it, Princess, your · What happens: feel, be, do, come back, sum · To what, where: sums

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 (Nigel, it, Princess, your), 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	_	6 feeling	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 feeling	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 feeling	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feeling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeling	aux
6	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 more	amod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 important	advmod
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feeling	ccomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 anything	case
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 important	obl
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 anything	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 able	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 able	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	18 able	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 anything	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sums	nmod:poss
22	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 do	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feeling	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeling	parataxis
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feeling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	Nigel			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	it		able property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive		your sums		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality
4	come back	past	the Princess			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sum		your			nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=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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