The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 255

But Sabrinetta threw her arms round Elfin's neck, and held him as though she would never let him go.

Who acts: Sabrinetta, nurse, Elfin · What happens: throw, hold, not let, go · To what, where: arms, 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 (Sabrinetta, nurse, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 threw	cc
2	Sabrinetta	Sabrinetta	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	9 neck	case
7	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 neck	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Elfin	case
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 held	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 held	cc
12	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 held	obj
14	as	as	ADV	_	19 let	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 let	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 let	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 let	advmod
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 held	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Sabrinetta	nurse's arms	round Elfin's neck	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	hold	past	Sabrinetta not said here	Elfin		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not let	would	nurse	Elfin		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	Elfin not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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