The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 17

Her elephant was devoted to her, and sometimes Mary Ann made her nurse quite cross by smuggling the dear little thing up to bed with her and letting it go to sleep with its long trunk laid lovingly across her throat, and its pretty head cuddled under the Royal right ear.

Who acts: elephant, Mary, thing, long trunk, pretty head · What happens: be, make, smuggle up, let, go, sleep · To what, where: gardener, nurse, dear little thing, bed, thing, throat

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 (elephant, Mary, thing, long trunk), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 elephant	nmod:poss
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 devoted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 devoted	cop
4	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 devoted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 made	advmod
10	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
11	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mary	flat
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 devoted	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nurse	nmod:poss
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 cross	advmod
16	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 smuggling	mark
18	smuggling	smuggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 made	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smuggling	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	18 smuggling	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 bed	case
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smuggling	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 smuggling	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 letting	cc
29	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 smuggling	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 letting	obj
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 letting	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sleep	mark
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	xcomp
34	with	with	SCONJ	_	38 laid	mark
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 trunk	nmod:poss
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 trunk	amod
37	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	nsubj
38	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sleep	advcl
39	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	_	38 laid	advmod
40	across	across	ADP	_	42 throat	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 throat	nmod:poss
42	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cuddled	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 cuddled	cc
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 head	nmod:poss
46	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 head	amod
47	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cuddled	nsubj
48	cuddled	cuddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 devoted	conj
49	under	under	ADP	_	53 ear	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 ear	det
51	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ear	amod
52	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ear	amod
53	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cuddled	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	gardener's elephant		gardener		devoted property	tree rules
2	make	past	Mary	gardener's nurse			cross obl; sometimes property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Product
3	smuggle up	gerund	Mary not said here	the dear little thing		bed	with gardener	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to bed=Destination
4	let	gerund	Mary not said here	thing				tree rules
5	go	infinitive	thing not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep	to-infinitive	thing not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lay	past	elephant's long trunk			gardener's throat	lovingly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	cuddle	participle	elephant's pretty head			the Royal right ear		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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