The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 61

And when my father's father was young he heard from the very old man, his great-great-grandfather, that in that tower an enchanted Princess, fairer than the day, waits to be delivered.

Who acts: father, young · What happens: be, hear, enchant, wait, 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 (father, young), 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	_	10 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 young	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 father	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 young	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 young	cop
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	15 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grandfather	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grandfather	nmod:poss
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandfather	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 great	punct
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandfather	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 great	punct
22	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fairer	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 fairer	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 tower	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 tower	det
27	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fairer	obl
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
29	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Princess	amod
30	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fairer	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fairer	punct
32	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 heard	parataxis
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fairer	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 waits	punct
37	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fairer	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	40 delivered	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 delivered	aux:pass
40	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 waits	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	my father's father	young property	tree rules
2	hear	past	young	from the old man and skipper's great great grandfather	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from man=Source
3	enchant	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	wait	present	young not said here		tree rules
5	deliver	to-infinitive · passive	young not said here		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»

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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