The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 160
She had never been out of her tower before, and the soft grass under her feet felt like grass of Paradise.
Who acts: Princess, soft grass · What happens: not be, feel · To what, where: tower
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, soft grass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:1441): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tower | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tower | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 tower | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tower | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tower | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 tower | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grass | amod |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grass | nmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tower | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 grass | case |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Paradise | case |
| 22 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 grass | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · perfect | Princess | Princess's tower | before property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the soft grass under Princess's feet | like grass of Paradise | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like grass=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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