The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 260
And, the minute he was married to the Princess, Elfin's hands got quite well.
Who acts: minute · What happens: marry, get · To what, where: charm
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 (minute), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 minute | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 minute | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Elfin | case |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 well | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 got | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the minute not said here | charm | to the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to princess=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | get | past | the minute | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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