The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 42

And now all days seemed like one day to the Princess, and the next day always seemed the day when her mother would come out of the stone and kiss her again.

Who acts: days, mother · What happens: seem, come out, kiss · To what, where: mother

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 (days, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 seemed	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 seemed	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 days	det
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl:unmarked
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 seemed	advmod
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl:unmarked
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 come	advmod
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seemed	xcomp
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 stone	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stone	det
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kiss	cc
31	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kiss	obj
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 kiss	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	all days		now; day	to the Princess	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	all days not said here		day	always property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	come out	would	Princess's mother			of the stone; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	kiss	infinitive	Princess's mother not said here	mother	again		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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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