The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 16
He gave her a dowry, and settled a handsome income on her.
Who acts: plan · What happens: give, settle · To what, where: dowry, Princess, handsome income
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 (plan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dowry | det |
| 5 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 settled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 settled | cc |
| 8 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 income | det |
| 10 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 income | amod |
| 11 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 settled | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 settled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | plan | a dowry | Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient dowry=Theme | |||
| 2 | settle | past | plan not said here | a handsome income | on Princess | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme income=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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