The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 4

The little white Princess always woke in her little white bed when the starlings began to chatter in the pearl gray morning.

Who acts: little white Princess, starlings · What happens: wake, begin, chatter · To what, where: little white bed

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 (little white Princess, starlings), 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	4 Princess	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Princess	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Princess	amod
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 woke	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 woke	advmod
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bed	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woke	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 began	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 starlings	det
14	starlings	starling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woke	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 chatter	mark
17	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 morning	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 morning	det
20	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 morning	compound
21	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chatter	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	the little white Princess	Princess's little white bed		always property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	the starlings				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chatter	to-infinitive	the starlings not said here		morning		vn animal_sounds-38 «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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