The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 72

The crowd began to cry, for they loved their Princess, though they quite saw that their first duty was to be generous and give the poor dragon what it wanted.

Who acts: crowd, things, first duty, duty · What happens: begin, cry, love, see, be, give · To what, where: Princess, poor dragon · 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 (crowd, things, first duty, duty), 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 crowd	det
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cry	mark
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 loved	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Princess	nmod:poss
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 saw	advmod
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 loved	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 generous	mark
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 duty	nmod:poss
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 duty	amod
20	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 generous	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 generous	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	24 generous	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 generous	cop
24	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 give	cc
26	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 generous	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dragon	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dragon	amod
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 wanted	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wanted	nsubj
32	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dragon	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the crowd			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the crowd not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	love	past	things = thing	things's Princess		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4	see	past	things = thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	things's first duty		generous property	tree rules
6	give	present	things's first duty not said here	the poor dragon		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme
7	want	past	duty	the poor dragon		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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