The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 125
But when the wicked Prince made promises he did not make them to keep.
Who acts: wicked Prince, Prince, promises · What happens: make, not make, not keep · To what, where: promises
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked Prince, Prince, promises), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Prince | amod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 7 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 make | advmod |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the wicked Prince | promises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product | ||||
| 2 | not make | past · do-support | Prince | promises = promise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not keep | to-infinitive | promises = promise not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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