The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 101

The Princess said she would try not to be selfish.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, try, not be · To what, where: selfish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 selfish	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 selfish	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 selfish	cop
10	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 try	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try	would	Princess		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is a	to-infinitive		selfish	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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