The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 4
"What will you do when you grow up, Princess?" asked the gardener's boy.
Who acts: you, boy · What happens: do, grow up, ask · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, boy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 grow | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grow | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Princess | punct |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gardener | det |
| 16 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 gardener | case |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | you | Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grow up in a quote | present | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the gardener's boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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