The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 18

When the Princess had been good all through the week--for, like all real, live, nice children, she was sometimes naughty, but never bad--Nurse would allow her to ask her little friends to come on Wednesday morning early and spend the day, because Wednesday is the end of the week in that country.

Who acts: Princess, head, Nurse, Wednesday · What happens: be, not be, allow, ask, come, spend · To what, where: head, little friends, country, end

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 (Princess, head, Nurse, Wednesday), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 good	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 week	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 children	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	21 children	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 children	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	21 children	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 children	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 live	punct
18	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 real	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 real	punct
20	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 good	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 naughty	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 naughty	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 naughty	cop
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 naughty	advmod
26	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bad	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 bad	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 bad	advmod
30	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 naughty	conj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 allow	punct
32	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 allow	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 allow	aux
34	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 bad	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 allow	iobj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 ask	mark
37	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 allow	xcomp
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 friends	nmod:poss
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 friends	amod
40	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ask	iobj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 come	mark
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 ask	xcomp
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 morning	case
44	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 morning	compound
45	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 come	obl
46	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 come	advmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 spend	cc
48	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 come	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 day	det
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spend	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 end	punct
52	because	because	SCONJ	_	56 end	mark
53	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 end	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 end	cop
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 end	det
56	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spend	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 week	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 week	det
59	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 end	nmod
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 country	case
61	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	62 country	det
62	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spend	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the Princess				week	good property	tree rules
2	is	past	head					naughty, sometimes property	tree rules
3	not be		head not said here						tree rules
4	allow	would	Nurse		head				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nurse not said here		head's little friends				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
6	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nurse not said here				morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spend	infinitive	Nurse not said here			that country	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	Wednesday	the end			week		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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