The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

"Oh, Mother, Mother, Mother," she cried, and hung around the Queen's neck as if she would never let go.

Who acts: Mother · What happens: cry, hang, not let, go · To what, where: neck

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 (Mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mother	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 Mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mother	punct
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Mother	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Mother	punct
8	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Mother	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hung	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hung	cc
15	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	conj
16	around	around	ADP	_	20 neck	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Queen	det
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 neck	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Queen	case
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hung	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 let	advmod
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hung	advcl
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Mother and Mother and Mother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hang	past	Mother and Mother and Mother not said here	the Queen's neck	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around neck=Location
3	not let	would	mother		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	mother not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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