The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 36

"Let them take care of themselves," she said, when the Princess begged to be allowed to go out and help to take care of the children. "

Who acts: you, ferns, Princess · What happens: let, take, say, beg, allow, go out · To what, where: ferns, care · 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 (you, ferns, Princess), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 begged	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 begged	nsubj
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 allowed	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 allowed	aux:pass
19	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 begged	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 allowed	xcomp
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 help	cc
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 help	xcomp
27	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 children	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 take	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	ferns = fern		tree rules
2	take in a quote	infinitive	ferns = fern not said here	care	of ferns = fern	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	beg speech: request	past	the Princess			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
6	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	help	infinitive				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	take	to-infinitive		care	of the children	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of child=Initial_Location

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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