The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 9

And every day the Princess came to see Nigel and brought him food cooked by the dragon, and he lived in his cave, and talked to her when she was there, and thought about her when she was not, and they were both as happy as the longest day in summer.

Who acts: day, Nigel, dragon, rules · What happens: come, see, bring, cook, live, talk · To what, where: Nigel, food, cave, dragon

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 (day, Nigel, dragon, rules), 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	_	6 came	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
9	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	obj
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
14	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 food	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 dragon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dragon	det
17	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cooked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lived	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cave	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cave	nmod:poss
24	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 talked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 talked	cc
27	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 talked	obl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 there	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 there	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 there	cop
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 talked	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thought	cc
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 talked	conj
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	obl
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	42 not	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 not	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 not	cop
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 thought	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 happy	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 happy	cc
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 happy	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 happy	cop
47	both	both	ADV	_	49 happy	advmod
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 happy	advmod
49	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	parataxis
50	as	as	ADP	_	53 day	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 day	det
52	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	53 day	amod
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 happy	obl
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 summer	case
55	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 day	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	every day						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	every day not said here	Nigel					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nigel=Stimulus
3	bring	past	every day not said here	food	Nigel				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=Theme
4	cook	participle		food not said here				by the dragon	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	live	past	Nigel			Nigel's cave			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location
6	talk	past	every day not said here		dragon				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
7	is	past	dragon					there property	tree rules
8	think speech: other	past	every day not said here					about dragon	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic
9	is	past	rules = rule				day	both, happy property	tree rules

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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