The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 226

He has saved the country and the little children; but, oh, his hands--his poor, dear, darling hands!"

Who acts: man · What happens: save · To what, where: country

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 (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saved	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saved	aux
3	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saved	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 children	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 country	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hands	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hands	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 but	punct
13	oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 hands	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 oh	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saved	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 poor	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 poor	nmod:poss
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hands	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dear	punct
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 poor	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hands	punct
23	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hands	amod
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hands	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 saved	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 saved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · perfect	man	the country and the little children				man's hands and darling hands obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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