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The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 174

She was a dear little girl with yellow pigtails and blue eyes, and she was tired of hearing the story of how Johnnie, when he was a baby, had been minded by a real dragon.

Who acts: whitesmith, Johnnie, real dragon · What happens: be, hear, mind · To what, where: dear little girl, story, baby, Johnnie

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whitesmith, Johnnie, real dragon), 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

nsubjcopdetamodamodcaseamodnmodccamodconjpunctccnsubjcopamodmarkadvcldetobjmarkadvmodnsubj:passpunctadvmodnsubjcopdetappospunctauxaux:passaclcasedetamodoblpunctrootShePRONwasAUXaDETdearADJlittleADJgirlNOUNwithADPyellowADJpigtailsNOUNandCCONJblueADJeyesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONwasAUXtiredADJofSCONJhearingVERBtheDETstoryNOUNofSCONJhowADVJohnniePROPN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONwasAUXaDETbabyNOUN,PUNCThadAUXbeenAUXmindedVERBbyADPaDETrealADJdragonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 girlnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 girlcop
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 girldet
4deardearADJDegree=Pos6 girlamod
5littlelittleADJDegree=Pos6 girlamod
6girlgirlNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
7withwithADP_9 pigtailscase
8yellowyellowADJDegree=Pos9 pigtailsamod
9pigtailspigtailNOUNNumber=Plur6 girlnmod
10andandCCONJ_12 eyescc
11blueblueADJDegree=Pos12 eyesamod
12eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur9 pigtailsconj
13,,PUNCT_17 tiredpunct
14andandCCONJ_17 tiredcc
15sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 tirednsubj
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 tiredcop
17tiredtiredADJDegree=Pos6 girlamod
18ofofSCONJ_19 hearingmark
19hearinghearVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 tiredadvcl
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 storydet
21storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing19 hearingobj
22ofofSCONJ_34 mindedmark
23howhowADVPronType=Int34 mindedadvmod
24JohnnieJohnniePROPNNumber=Sing34 mindednsubj:pass
25,,PUNCT_30 babypunct
26whenwhenADVPronType=Int30 babyadvmod
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 babynsubj
28wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 babycop
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 babydet
30babybabyNOUNNumber=Sing24 Johnnieappos
31,,PUNCT_24 Johnniepunct
32hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 mindedaux
33beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part34 mindedaux:pass
34mindedmindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 storyacl
35bybyADP_38 dragoncase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 dragondet
37realrealADJDegree=Pos38 dragonamod
38dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing34 mindedobl
39..PUNCT_6 girlpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastwhitesmitha dear little girlwith yellow pigtails and blue eyestree rules
2ispastwhitesmithtired propertytree rules
3heargerundwhitesmith not said herethe storyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4is apastJohnniea babytree rules
5mindpast · perfect · passivea real dragonJohnnievn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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