The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 84
"You are very good, and very clever, and very dear," said the Princess, smiling and giving him both her hands.
Who acts: You, Princess · What happens: be, say, smile, give · To what, where: hands, Nigel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clever | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clever | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 clever | advmod |
| 9 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dear | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 dear | advmod |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smiling | punct |
| 20 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 giving | cc |
| 22 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 smiling | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 giving | iobj |
| 24 | both | both | ADV | _ | 26 hands | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 giving | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | You not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smile | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | give | gerund | the Princess not said here | Princess's hands | Nigel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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