The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 5

As soon as the woods were awake, she used to run up the twisting turret-stairs with her little bare feet, and stand on the top of the tower in her white bed-gown, and kiss her hands to the sun and to the woods and to the sleeping town, and say: "Good morning, pretty world!"

Who acts: woods, Princess · What happens: be, use, run up, twist, stand, kiss · To what, where: twisting turret stairs, top, hands · 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 (woods, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 awake	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 awake	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woods	det
5	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 awake	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 run	mark
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 run	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stairs	det
15	twisting	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 stairs	amod
16	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stairs	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 turret	punct
18	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 run	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 feet	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feet	amod
22	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feet	amod
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stairs	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stand	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stand	cc
26	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 top	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 top	det
29	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 tower	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tower	det
32	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 top	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	38 gown	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 gown	nmod:poss
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gown	amod
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gown	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 bed	punct
38	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 kiss	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 kiss	cc
41	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 stand	conj
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hands	nmod:poss
43	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 kiss	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 sun	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sun	det
46	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kiss	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 woods	cc
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 woods	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 woods	det
50	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 sun	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 town	cc
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 town	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 town	det
54	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 town	compound
55	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sun	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 say	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 say	cc
58	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 stand	conj
59	:	:	PUNCT	_	62 morning	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	62 morning	punct
61	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 morning	amod
62	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 say	obj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 world	punct
64	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	65 world	advmod
65	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 morning	conj
66	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the woods				awake, soon property	tree rules
2	use	past	Princess					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	run up	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	the twisting turret stairs			with Princess's little bare feet	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Product with foot=Material
4	twist	gerund						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	stand	infinitive			the top of the tower		in Princess's white bed gown	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
6	kiss	infinitive		Princess's hands			to the sun and the woods and the sleeping town	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
7	say speech: assert	infinitive				morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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