The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 159

The Princess could not walk through the streets of the town in her milky-silky gown with the daisies on it, and with no hat and no gloves, so she turned the other way, and ran out across the meadows, toward the wood.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: not walk, turn, run out · To what, where: streets, other way, meadows

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), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 walk	advmod
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 streets	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 streets	det
8	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 streets	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 gown	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 gown	nmod:poss
14	milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gown	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 milky	punct
16	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gown	amod
17	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 daisies	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 daisies	det
20	daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gown	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 daisies	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hat	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 hat	case
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 hat	det
27	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gloves	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 gloves	det
30	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hat	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turned	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 turned	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 turned	nsubj
34	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 way	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 way	amod
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ran	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ran	cc
40	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 turned	conj
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 ran	compound:prt
42	across	across	ADP	_	44 meadows	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 meadows	det
44	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 ran	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 wood	punct
46	toward	toward	ADP	_	48 wood	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 wood	det
48	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ran	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not walk	could	the Princess		the streets of the town	in Princess's milky silky gown with the daisies on gown	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through street=Initial_Location in gown=Trajectory
2	turn	past	Princess	the other way			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	run out	past	Princess not said here		the meadows	toward the wood	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across meadow=Trajectory

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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