The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 149
When he had eaten and drunk, he begged the Princess to show him how to lock and unlock the door.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: eat, beg, show, lock, unlock · To what, where: Princess, Prince, door · 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 begged | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drunk | cc |
| 6 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eaten | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 show | mark |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begged | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 lock | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lock | mark |
| 17 | lock | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 show | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 unlock | cc |
| 19 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lock | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unlock | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | Prince | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Prince | the Princess | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lock | to-infinitive | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | unlock | infinitive | the door | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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