The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 6
Then she would run down the cold stone steps and dress herself in her short skirt and her cap and apron, and begin the day's work.
Who acts: Princess, day · What happens: run down, dress, begin, work · To what, where: cold stone steps, Princess, short skirt, work
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, day), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 run | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 run | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steps | det |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steps | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steps | compound |
| 9 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dress | cc |
| 11 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 run | conj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 dress | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 skirt | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 skirt | amod |
| 16 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dress | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cap | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cap | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skirt | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 apron | cc |
| 21 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skirt | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 begin | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 begin | cc |
| 24 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 work | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 day | case |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 begin | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | would | Princess | the cold stone steps | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | dress | infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess | Princess's short skirt and Princess's cap and apron | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | begin | present | Princess not said here | the day's work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | work | the day | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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