The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
As for the Princess Mary Ann, she was a very good little girl, and everyone loved her.
Who acts: gardener, everyone · What happens: be, love · To what, where: good little girl, gardener
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener, everyone), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 Mary | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mary | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mary | compound |
| 5 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | obl |
| 6 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mary | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mary | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 girl | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 girl | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 loved | cc |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 loved | nsubj |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 girl | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 loved | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gardener | a good little girl | as the Princess Mary | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | past | everyone | gardener | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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