The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 9

And, now the nurse was old and feeble, the Princess would not let her work any more, but did all the housework herself, while Nurse sat still and did the sewing, because this was a real Princess with skin like milk and hair like flax and a heart like gold.

Who acts: nurse, Princess, this · What happens: be, not let, work, do, sit · To what, where: nurse, housework, sewing, real Princess

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 (nurse, Princess, this), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 old	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 old	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nurse	det
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feeble	cc
9	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 let	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	any	any	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 work	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 did	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 did	cc
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 housework	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 housework	det
25	housework	housework	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 did	obj
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 did	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 sat	mark
29	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 did	parataxis
31	still	still	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 did	cc
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sat	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sewing	det
35	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Princess	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	42 Princess	mark
38	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 Princess	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 Princess	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 Princess	det
41	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Princess	amod
42	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 skin	case
44	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Princess	nmod
45	like	like	ADP	_	46 milk	case
46	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Princess	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hair	cc
48	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 milk	conj
49	like	like	ADP	_	50 flax	case
50	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hair	nmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 heart	cc
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 heart	det
53	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 milk	conj
54	like	like	ADP	_	55 gold	case
55	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 heart	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nurse		now	old property	tree rules
2	be		the nurse not said here				tree rules
3	not let	would	the Princess	nurse			tree rules
4	work	infinitive	nurse not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past		all housework		Princess obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housework=Eventuality
6	sit	past	Nurse		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	do	past	Nurse not said here	the sewing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sewing=Eventuality
8	is a	past	this	a real Princess		with skin; like milk and hair like flax and a heart like gold	tree rules

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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