The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 29
Your daughter is under a spell, and I can take you to her.
Who acts: daughter, I · What happens: be, take · To what, where: spell, you, witch
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 (daughter, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spell | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spell | cop |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 spell | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spell | det |
| 6 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spell | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your daughter | a spell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | can | I | you | witch | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to she=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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