The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 257
Come along, Nurse--don't wait to put on your bonnet.
Who acts: you · What happens: come along, not wait, put · To what, where: Nurse, bonnet
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 (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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nurse | punct |
| 4 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wait | advmod |
| 8 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wait | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bonnet | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bonnet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | imperative | you not said here | Nurse | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not wait | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | you not said here | your bonnet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on bonnet=Destination |
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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