The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 268
The nurse lives with them, and does nothing but fine sewing, and only that when she wants to very much.
Who acts: nurse, that · What happens: live, do, want · To what, where: nothing
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 (nurse, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lives | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 does | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 does | cc |
| 8 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lives | conj |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 does | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 sewing | cc |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sewing | amod |
| 12 | sewing | sewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wants | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wants | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 wants | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 wants | nsubj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 wants | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wants | nsubj |
| 19 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lives | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 much | mark |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 wants | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the nurse | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | present | the nurse not said here | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | want | present | that | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=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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