The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 256
"Then it's all right, my dear, brave, precious Elfin," she cried, "for I am a Princess, and you shall be my Prince.
Who acts: neck, nurse, you · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: precious Elfin, Prince · 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 (neck, nurse, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 right | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 right | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 right | advmod |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 right | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brave | punct |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 right | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Elfin | punct |
| 13 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Elfin | amod |
| 14 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Princess | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Princess | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Princess | case |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Princess | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Princess | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 25 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Prince | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Prince | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 Prince | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 Prince | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 Prince | cop |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | neck | then | all, right property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | neck not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | neck not said here | precious Elfin | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | nurse | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | nurse | for a Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | shall | you | my Prince | tree rules |
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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