The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 37
And the Princess said: "Yes--only--" And she kissed Nigel and went back to sew the last leaf of the last lily on the bosom of her wedding gown.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, kiss, go back, sew, bosom · To what, where: Nigel, last leaf, wedding gown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yes | punct |
| 7 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 14 kissed | discourse |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yes | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 -- | advmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yes | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yes | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kissed | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kissed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kissed | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sew | mark |
| 20 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 leaf | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leaf | amod |
| 23 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sew | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lily | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lily | det |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lily | amod |
| 27 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaf | nmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 bosom | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bosom | det |
| 30 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lily | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gown | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 gown | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gown | compound |
| 34 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bosom | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Princess | Nigel | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nigel=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | Princess not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sew | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the last leaf of the last lily on the bosom of Princess's wedding gown | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Product | ||||
| 5 | bosom | Princess's wedding gown | nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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