The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 13

She was always kind and polite, even to her Uncle James and to other people whom she did not like very much; and though she was not very clever, for a Princess, she always tried to do her lessons.

Who acts: gardener · What happens: be, not like, not be, try, do · To what, where: other people, lessons

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 kind	advmod
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 polite	cc
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 James	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 James	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 James	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Uncle	nmod:poss
11	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 James	nmod:desc
12	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kind	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 people	cc
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 James	conj
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 like	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 like	advmod
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 people	acl:relcl
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	21 like	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 tried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tried	cc
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 clever	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 clever	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 clever	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 clever	advmod
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 clever	advmod
31	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tried	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Princess	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 Princess	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Princess	det
35	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 clever	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 clever	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tried	nsubj
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	39 tried	advmod
39	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 do	mark
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 tried	xcomp
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 lessons	nmod:poss
43	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 do	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	gardener		always, kind property	tree rules
2	be		gardener not said here			tree rules
3	not like	past · do-support	gardener	other people		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme
4	not is	past	gardener		clever property	tree rules
5	try	past	gardener		always property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	gardener not said here	gardener's lessons		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=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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