The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 70

He never shed a single tear for his poor tame hippopotamuses who had eaten from his hand and followed him faithfully in all the pleasures of the chase for so many years.

Who acts: Prince, poor tame hippopotamuses · What happens: not shed, eat, follow, please · To what, where: single tear, hand, Prince, pleasures, chase

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 (Prince, poor tame hippopotamuses), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 shed	advmod
3	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tear	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tear	amod
6	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shed	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 hippopotamuses	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hippopotamuses	nmod:poss
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hippopotamuses	amod
10	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hippopotamuses	amod
11	hippopotamuses	hippopotamus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shed	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 eaten	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 hippopotamuses	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 followed	cc
19	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 followed	obj
21	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	19 followed	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 pleasures	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 pleasures	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pleasures	det
25	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 followed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 chase	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chase	det
28	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pleasures	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 years	case
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 years	amod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shed	past	Prince	a single tear			for Prince's poor tame hippopotamuses	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
2	eat	past · perfect	Prince's poor tame hippopotamuses		Prince's hand	year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from hand=Source
3	follow	past	Prince's poor tame hippopotamuses not said here	Prince	all pleasures of the chase		faithfully property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pleasure=Trajectory
4	please			the chase				nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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