The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 8
For of all who should have served her, only one remained faithful--her old nurse, who had lived with her in the tower all the Princess's life.
Who acts: one, old nurse · What happens: serve, remain, live · To what, where: Princess, old nurse, life, tower
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 (one, old nurse), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 served | obl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 served | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 served | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 served | aux |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 served | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 served | conj |
| 13 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 remained | xcomp |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 nurse | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nurse | amod |
| 17 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lived | aux |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lived | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tower | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tower | det |
| 26 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 life | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Princess | case |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | should · perfect · passive | Princess | for all | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | one | Princess's old nurse | faithful property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | live | past · perfect | Princess's old nurse | the Princess's life | the tower | with Princess | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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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