The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 136

So Elfin sat down again by his fire, and the Prince went home and told his Parliament how clever and brave he had been, and though he woke them up on purpose to tell them, they were not angry, but said: "You are indeed brave and clever."

Who acts: Elfin, Prince, hands, You · What happens: sit down, go, tell, be, wake up, not be · To what, where: Parliament, hands, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Elfin, Prince, hands, You), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fire	nmod:poss
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Parliament	nmod:poss
18	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 clever	advmod
20	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brave	cc
22	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 clever	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 been	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 been	aux
25	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 told	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 woke	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 woke	cc
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 woke	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 woke	nsubj
30	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 woke	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 woke	compound:prt
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 purpose	case
34	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 woke	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 tell	mark
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 woke	advcl
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tell	iobj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 angry	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 angry	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 angry	cop
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 angry	advmod
42	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tell	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 said	cc
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 brave	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 brave	punct
48	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 brave	nsubj
49	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 brave	cop
50	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	51 brave	advmod
51	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 said	ccomp
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 clever	cc
53	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 brave	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Elfin				again	by Elfin's fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	go	past	the Prince					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Elfin not said here		Prince's Parliament				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent parliament=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be	past · perfect	Prince						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wake up	past	Prince	hands = hand		purpose			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		hands = hand				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	not is	past	hands = hand					angry property	tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	Elfin not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is in a quote	present	You					brave, indeed property	tree rules
10	be in a quote		You not said here						tree rules
11	fire		Elfin						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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