The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 60

Nurse washed his face, and told him not to be a silly little King. "

Who acts: Nurse · What happens: wash, tell, not be · To what, where: face, Nurse, silly little King · 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 (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	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 washed	nsubj
2	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 washed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 washed	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 King	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	15 King	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 King	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 King	det
13	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 King	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 King	amod
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 washed	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wash	past	Nurse	Nurse's face		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Nurse not said here		Nurse	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	not is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		a silly little King		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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