The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 45
And all the time, from the very first, the day of the Princess's deliverance was coming, creeping nearer, and nearer, and nearer.
Who acts: day, Princess · What happens: come, creep, deliver
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 (day, Princess), 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 | _ | 25 nearer | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nearer | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nearer | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 nearer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 nearer | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 first | advmod |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 coming | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coming | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 deliverance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Princess | case |
| 17 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 nearer | csubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 creeping | punct |
| 21 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 coming | conj |
| 22 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 creeping | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nearer | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 nearer | cc |
| 25 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nearer | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 nearer | cc |
| 28 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 nearer | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 nearer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | the day of the Princess's deliverance | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | the day of the Princess's deliverance not said here | near property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deliver | the Princess | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=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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