The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 15
After saving up all these years to get his crown, and everything!"
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: save up, get, crown · To what, where: everything, crown
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 saving | mark |
| 2 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 saving | compound:prt |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 years | det:predet |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 years | det |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saving | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saving | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crown | nmod:poss |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 everything | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 everything | cc |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 saving | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 everything | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 everything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save up | gerund | everything | year | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Dragon's crown | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | crown | Dragon | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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