The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 79
So Tom climbed up the white rosebush and kissed the Princess through the window, and said: "Many happy returns of the day."
Who acts: Tom, day · What happens: climb up, kiss, say, return · To what, where: white rosebush, Princess, window, Many happy returns · 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 (Tom, day), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rosebush | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rosebush | amod |
| 7 | rosebush | rosebush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | cc |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 returns | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 returns | punct |
| 20 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 returns | amod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 returns | amod |
| 22 | returns | return | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 returns | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | Tom | the white rosebush | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rosebush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Tom not said here | the Princess | the window | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tom not said here | Many happy returns of the day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | return in a quote | the day | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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