The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 33

And there was the Princess sitting on the floor in the best room of the Lone Tower, crying as if her heart would break, and the dragon and the griffin were sitting primly on each side of her.

Who acts: Princess, heart, dragon · What happens: be, sit, cry, break · To what, where: floor, side

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 (Princess, heart, dragon), 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	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Princess	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Tower	det
16	Lone	Lone	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tower	compound
17	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 room	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crying	punct
19	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	advcl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 break	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 break	mark
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 break	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 break	aux
25	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 crying	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sitting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sitting	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dragon	det
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 griffin	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 griffin	det
32	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dragon	conj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sitting	aux
34	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	conj
35	primly	primly	ADV	_	34 sitting	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 side	det
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 side	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the Princess	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	gerund	the Princess not said here	the floor	in the best room of the Lone Tower	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the Princess not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	break a condition, not said to happen	would	Princess's heart			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	sit	past · progressive	the dragon and the griffin	each side of Princess	primly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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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