The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 5

Our daughter is not a boy, it is true--but she may marry a clever man who could rule your kingdom after you, and learn as much magic as ever you cared to teach him."

Who acts: daughter, word, child, clever man, you · What happens: not be, be, marry, rule, learn, care · To what, where: boy, clever man, kingdom, much magic, man

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, word, child, clever man), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 boy	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	acl:relcl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 marry	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 marry	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 marry	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 marry	aux
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 true	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 marry	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 rule	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 rule	aux
21	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 man	acl:relcl
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 kingdom	nmod:poss
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rule	obj
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 rule	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 learn	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 learn	cc
28	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 marry	conj
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 magic	amod
31	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 learn	obj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 cared	mark
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 cared	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 cared	nsubj
35	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 learn	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 teach	mark
37	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cared	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 teach	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Our daughter	a boy				tree rules
2	is	present	word	a boy not said here			true property	tree rules
3	marry	may	child	a clever man				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	rule	could	a clever man	your kingdom		after you		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
5	learn	present	child not said here	much magic				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Topic
6	care	past	you			ever		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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