The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 22

Effie rubbed and cried--not real crying, but the kind your eye does all by itself without your being miserable inside your mind--and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out.

Who acts: Effie, kind eye, thing, your · What happens: rub, cry, not cry, do, be, go · To what, where: mind, thing, eye

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 (Effie, kind eye, thing, your), 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	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cried	cc
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 crying	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 crying	advmod
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crying	amod
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cried	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 does	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 does	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eye	det
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eye	amod
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eye	nmod:poss
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 itself	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 itself	case
18	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 does	obl
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 miserable	mark
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 miserable	nmod:poss
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 miserable	cop
22	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 does	advcl
23	inside	inside	ADP	_	25 mind	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mind	nmod:poss
25	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 miserable	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 went	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 father	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 have	mark
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 went	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 thing	det
37	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 eye	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 eye	nmod:poss
40	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obl
41	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 have	xcomp
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 taken	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	Effie					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Effie not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not cry speech: express	gerund	Effie not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	present	your kind eye				by eye	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	gerund	your kind eye not said here		your mind		miserable property	tree rules
6	go	past	Effie			then	to Effie's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
7	have	to-infinitive	Effie not said here	the thing	Effie's eye			tree rules
8	take out	participle	the thing not said here					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	mind		your					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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