The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 150

The nurse was asleep, so there was no one to tell the Princess not to, and she did.

Who acts: nurse, one, Princess · What happens: be, not tell, do · To what, where: Princess · 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 (nurse, one, Princess), 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 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 did	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 one	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tell	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	15 not	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 did	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nurse			asleep property	tree rules
2	be	past	no one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the Princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
4	do	past	Princess				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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