The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 25
The Queen, left at home, cried for a day and a night, and then she remembered the witch and called to her.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: leave, cry, remember, call · To what, where: Queen, home, witch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Queen | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remembered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 remembered | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 remembered | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 remembered | nsubj |
| 19 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 witch | det |
| 21 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remembered | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 called | cc |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 remembered | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | the Queen not said here | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Queen | day | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | Queen | the witch | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | |||
| 4 | call | past | Queen not said here | Queen | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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