The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 35

The Princess went down and told her nurse, and the nurse at once locked the great door of the tower and put the key in her pocket.

Who acts: Princess, nurse · What happens: go down, tell, lock, put · To what, where: nurse, great door, key, pocket · 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 (Princess, nurse), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nurse	nmod:poss
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 locked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 locked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nurse	det
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 locked	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 locked	obl
15	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 door	amod
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 locked	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tower	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tower	det
21	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 locked	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 key	det
25	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 pocket	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pocket	nmod:poss
28	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the Princess				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Princess not said here		Princess's nurse			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient
3	lock	past	the nurse	the great door of the tower				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	put	infinitive	the nurse not said here	the key		Princess's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent key=Theme in pocket=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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