The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 14

Because, you see, the Princess and the gardener's son were so fond of each other they could not help being happy--and besides, they had an elephant of their very own to ride on.

Who acts: you, Princess, sons, besides · What happens: see, be, not help, have, ride on · To what, where: besides, elephant

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, sons, besides), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 see	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fond	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fond	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 son	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gardener	det
10	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 gardener	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Princess	conj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fond	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 fond	advmod
15	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 help	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	15 fond	obl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 help	advmod
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 happy	cop
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 help	xcomp
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 besides	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 besides	cc
27	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 help	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 help	parataxis
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 elephant	det
32	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 own	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 own	nmod:poss
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 own	advmod
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 elephant	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 ride	mark
38	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	advcl
39	on	on	ADV	_	38 ride	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the Princess and the gardener's son		of each; fond property	tree rules
3	not help	could	sons = son	besides		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	is not said to happen	gerund	besides not said here		happy property	tree rules
5	have	past	sons = son	a elephant of sons's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Patient
6	ride on	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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