The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 148

The Princess took Prince Tiresome into the best room, and laid the cloth, and gave him cream and eggs and white grapes and honey and bread, with many other things, yellow and white and good to eat, and she served him just as kindly as she would have done if he had been anyone else instead of the bad Prince who had taken away her kingdom and kept it for himself--because she was a true Princess and had a heart of gold.

Who acts: Princess, Prince · What happens: take, lay, give, eat, serve, do · To what, where: Tiresome, best room, cloth, cream, Prince, anyone

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 (Princess, Prince), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tiresome	nmod:desc
5	Tiresome	Tiresome	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laid	cc
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cloth	det
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 eggs	cc
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cream	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grapes	cc
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grapes	amod
24	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cream	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 honey	cc
26	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cream	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bread	cc
28	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cream	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 things	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 things	case
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 yellow	punct
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 white	cc
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 yellow	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 good	cc
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 yellow	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 good	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 served	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 served	cc
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 served	nsubj
45	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 served	obj
47	just	just	ADV	_	49 kindly	advmod
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 kindly	advmod
49	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	45 served	advmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 done	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 done	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 done	aux
53	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 done	aux
54	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 kindly	advcl
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 anyone	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 anyone	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 anyone	aux
58	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 anyone	cop
59	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	45 served	advcl
60	else	else	ADV	_	59 anyone	advmod
61	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	65 Prince	case
62	of	of	ADP	_	61 instead	fixed
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 Prince	det
64	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 Prince	amod
65	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 anyone	nmod
66	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	68 taken	nsubj
67	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 taken	aux
68	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 anyone	acl:relcl
69	away	away	ADV	_	68 taken	advmod
70	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 kingdom	nmod:poss
71	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 taken	obj
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 kept	cc
73	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 taken	conj
74	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 kept	obj
75	for	for	ADP	_	76 himself	case
76	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	73 kept	obl
77	--	--	PUNCT	_	83 Princess	punct
78	because	because	SCONJ	_	83 Princess	mark
79	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	83 Princess	nsubj
80	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 Princess	cop
81	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	83 Princess	det
82	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 Princess	amod
83	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 served	obl
84	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 had	cc
85	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 served	conj
86	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	87 heart	det
87	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 had	obj
88	of	of	ADP	_	89 gold	case
89	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 heart	nmod
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Princess	Tiresome Prince		the best room		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tiresome=Theme into room=Destination
2	lay	past	the Princess not said here	the cloth				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Result
3	give	past	the Princess not said here	cream and eggs and white grapes and honey and bread	Prince			tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	serve	past	Princess	Prince			kindly property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
6	do	would · perfect	Princess					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Prince	anyone			instead the bad Prince; else property	tree rules
8	take away	past · perfect		Princess's kingdom			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
9	keep	past		thing			for Prince	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	is a	past	Princess	a true Princess				tree rules
11	have	past	Princess not said here	a heart of gold				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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