The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 58

He heard the Blue Bird singing among the roses and saw the Butterfly fluttering among the lilies, and he said: "Nurse, wipe my face, please.

Who acts: King, Blue Bird, Butterfly · What happens: hear, sing, see, flutter, say, wipe · To what, where: Blue Bird, roses, Butterfly, lilies, Nurse, face · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Blue Bird, Butterfly), 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	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bird	det
4	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bird	amod
5	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Bird	acl
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 roses	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roses	det
9	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 singing	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Butterfly	det
13	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 saw	xcomp
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 lilies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lilies	det
17	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fluttering	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Nurse	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Nurse	punct
24	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wipe	punct
26	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wipe	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wipe	punct
30	please	please	INTJ	_	2 heard	discourse
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	King	the Blue Bird		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the Blue Bird not said here		the roses	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among rose=Location
3	see	past	King not said here	the Butterfly		tree rules
4	flutter	gerund	the Butterfly not said here		the lilies	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among lily=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	King	Nurse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	wipe in a quote	infinitive		my face		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source

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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