The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 57

Then the King cried for six days, and on the seventh he was so tired that he had to stop.

Who acts: King · What happens: cry, be, have, stop · To what, where: seventh

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 (King), 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 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cried	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tired	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tired	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 seventh	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seventh	det
12	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tired	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tired	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 tired	advmod
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cried	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stop	mark
21	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the King		then; day		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	King	the seventh		tired property	tree rules
3	have	past	King				tree rules
4	stop	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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