The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 223
The Princess kissed them, and cried over them, and tore pieces of her silky-milky gown to tie them up with, and the two went back to the tower and told the nurse all about everything.
Who acts: Princess, two · What happens: kiss, cry, tear, tie up, go back, tell · To what, where: hands, pieces, nurse · 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 (Princess, two), 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:pg23661:1485): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tore | cc |
| 12 | tore | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tore | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gown | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gown | nmod:poss |
| 16 | silky | silky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 milky | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 silky | punct |
| 18 | milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gown | amod |
| 19 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pieces | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 tie | mark |
| 21 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tore | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tie | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 tie | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tie | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 two | det |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 tower | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tower | det |
| 33 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 told | cc |
| 35 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 went | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 nurse | det |
| 37 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 told | obj |
| 38 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 everything | advmod |
| 39 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 everything | case |
| 40 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 told | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the Princess | hands = hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Princess not said here | over hands = hand | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location | ||||
| 3 | tear | past | the Princess not said here | pieces of Princess's milky gown | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location piece=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tie up | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | hands = hand | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go back | past | the two | to the tower result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tower=Result | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | the two not said here | the nurse | about everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient about everything=Topic |
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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