The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 73
The Princess began to cry, for she did not want to be anybody's birthday present--especially a purple dragon's.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: begin, cry, not want, be · To what, where: birthday present
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 | PROPN | 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 | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 want | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 want | advmod |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cry | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 present | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 present | cop |
| 14 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 present | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 anybody | case |
| 16 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 present | compound |
| 17 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 want | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 dragon | punct |
| 19 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 22 dragon | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 21 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dragon | amod |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 present | appos |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 dragon | case |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Princess | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not want | past · do-support | Princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | anybody's birthday present | 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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