The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 39
So Sabrinetta went up again to the top of her tower, and cried whenever she thought of the children and the fiery dragon.
Who acts: Sabrinetta, Princess · What happens: go up, cry, think
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 (Sabrinetta, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Sabrinetta | Sabrinetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tower | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tower | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 thought | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 children | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 children | det |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thought | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dragon | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dragon | det |
| 23 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dragon | amod |
| 24 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 children | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Sabrinetta | again | to the top of Princess's tower | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Sabrinetta not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Princess | of the children and the fiery dragon; whenever property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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