The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 59

What with the elephant, and the Princess's affection, and the knowledge that the very next day he would receive the _History of Rotundia_, beautifully bound, with the Royal arms on the cover, Tom could hardly sleep a wink.

Who acts: affection, Tom · What happens: receive, sleep · To what, where: History, wink

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 (affection, Tom), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 elephant	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bound	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bound	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 affection	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Princess	case
10	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bound	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knowledge	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knowledge	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knowledge	det
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 affection	appos
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 receive	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 next	advmod
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 receive	obl:unmarked
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 receive	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 receive	aux
22	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 knowledge	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 History	det
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 History	punct
25	History	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 receive	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Rotundia	case
27	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 History	nmod
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 bound	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bound	punct
30	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	31 bound	advmod
31	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 What	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 arms	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 arms	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 arms	det
35	Royal	Royal	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 arms	compound
36	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bound	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 cover	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cover	det
39	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 arms	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sleep	punct
41	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 sleep	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 sleep	aux
43	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	44 sleep	advmod
44	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 arms	parataxis
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 wink	det
46	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sleep	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	would	affection	the History of Rotundia			day		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme
2	sleep	could	Tom	a wink				hardly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme

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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