The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 194
So she started off to get the bottle, but she would not let Elfin come with her.
Who acts: Dragon, Elfin · What happens: start off, get, not let, come · To what, where: bottle, Elfin
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 (Dragon, Elfin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 started | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 started | parataxis |
| 15 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | Dragon | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Dragon not said here | the bottle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not let | would | Dragon | Elfin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | Elfin not said here | with Dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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