The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 64

But on this particular night he barked and barked and barked--and the Princess said, "Oh dear, oh dear, I wish he wouldn't, I am so sleepy."

Who acts: Tom, Princess · What happens: bark, say, wish, be · 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 (Tom, Princess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 barked	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 night	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 night	det
4	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barked	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 barked	nsubj
7	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 barked	cc
9	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 barked	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 barked	cc
11	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 barked	conj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dear	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 dear	punct
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 dear	discourse
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dear	punct
22	oh	oh	INTJ	_	23 dear	discourse
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dear	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wish	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 wish	nsubj
26	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 would	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 wish	ccomp
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 would	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sleepy	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 sleepy	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sleepy	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 sleepy	advmod
34	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 sleepy	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 sleepy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	Tom	night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bark	participle	Tom not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bark	participle	Tom not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wish in a quote	present	the Princess = princess			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is in a quote	present	the Princess = princess		sleepy property	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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