The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 85
He shut a little kiss in each hand before he let them go.
Who acts: Nigel, kisses · What happens: shut, let, go · To what, where: little kiss, hand, kisses
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 (Nigel, kisses), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kiss | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kiss | amod |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | nsubj |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shut | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | Nigel | a little kiss | each hand | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Nigel | kisses = kiss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | kisses = kiss not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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