The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 53

The Princess always played with Tom on the days when the little dukes and marquises did not come to tea--and when he told her he was almost sure of the first prize, she clapped her hands and said: "Dear Tom, dear good, clever Tom, you deserve all the prizes.

Who acts: Princess, little dukes, Tom, Rotundia, you · What happens: play, not come, tell, be, clap, say · To what, where: tea, Rotundia, hands, prizes · 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 (Princess, little dukes, Tom, Rotundia), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 played	advmod
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Tom	case
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 come	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dukes	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dukes	amod
13	dukes	duke	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 marquises	cc
15	marquises	marquis	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dukes	conj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 played	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 tea	case
20	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 clapped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 clapped	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 told	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 clapped	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sure	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	cop
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 sure	advmod
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 told	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 prize	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 prize	det
33	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 prize	amod
34	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sure	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 clapped	nsubj
37	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	parataxis
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hands	nmod:poss
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 clapped	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 said	cc
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 clapped	conj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 Tom	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Tom	punct
44	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Tom	amod
45	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 said	ccomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Tom	punct
47	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Tom	amod
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Tom	amod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 clever	punct
50	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 good	conj
51	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Tom	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 deserve	punct
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 deserve	nsubj
54	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 Tom	conj
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	57 prizes	det:predet
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 prizes	det
57	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 deserve	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the Princess				day	with Tom; always property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tom=Co-Agent
2	not come	past · do-support	the little dukes and marquises			tea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tea=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	Tom		Rotundia				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	Tom					of the first prize; almost, sure property	tree rules
5	clap	past	Rotundia	Rotundia's hands					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	Rotundia not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	deserve in a quote	present	you	all prizes					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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