The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 133

When the dragon was wound onto the pillar as much as he possibly could be, and as tight--like cotton on a reel--the Princess stopped running, and though she had very little breath left, she managed to say, "Yah--who's won now?"

Who acts: Princess, little breath, Yah · What happens: woun, stop, run, have, leave, manage · To what, where: dragon, pillar, little breath · 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, little breath, Yah), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 wound	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wound	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wound	aux:pass
5	wound	woun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 stopped	advcl
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 pillar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pillar	det
8	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wound	obl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pillar	amod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 be	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 be	nsubj
13	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	15 be	advmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 much	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tight	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tight	cc
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 tight	advmod
19	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wound	conj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 cotton	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 cotton	case
22	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tight	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 reel	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reel	det
25	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cotton	nmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 wound	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 stopped	nsubj
29	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 stopped	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 managed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 managed	cc
33	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 managed	advcl
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 little	advmod
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 breath	amod
38	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
39	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 had	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 managed	nsubj
42	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stopped	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 say	mark
44	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 managed	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 won	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 won	punct
47	Yah	Yah	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 won	nsubj
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 won	punct
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 won	nsubj
50	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 won	aux
51	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 say	ccomp
52	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 won	advmod
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 stopped	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	woun	past · passive		the dragon	the pillar		tree rules
2	stop	past	the Princess				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	run	gerund	the Princess not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	Princess	little breath			tree rules
5	leave	participle	little breath not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	manage	past	Princess				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	say speech: ask	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	win in a quote	present · passive	Yah			now	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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