The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 19

Then Effie began to cry, and she put her arms around St. George's neck as well as she could for the marble, which was very much in the way at the back, and she kissed the marble face, and she said: "Oh, dear, good, kind St. George, please wake up and help us."

Who acts: Effie, marble, St., kind George · What happens: begin, cry, put, be, kiss, say · To what, where: arms, neck, way, marble face, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Effie, marble, St., kind George), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	Effie	Effie	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	_	9 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
12	around	around	ADP	_	16 neck	case
13	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 George	nmod:desc
14	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 neck	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 George	case
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 well	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 put	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 could	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 could	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 well	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 marble	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 marble	det
24	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 way	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 way	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	32 way	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marble	appos
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 back	det
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 way	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 kissed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 kissed	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 kissed	nsubj
39	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 face	det
41	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 face	amod
42	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 kissed	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 said	cc
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 said	nsubj
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 dear	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 dear	punct
49	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	51 dear	discourse
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Oh	punct
51	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 said	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 good	punct
53	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 dear	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 George	punct
55	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 George	amod
56	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 George	nmod:desc
57	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 wake	nsubj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 George	punct
59	please	please	INTJ	_	60 wake	discourse
60	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 dear	parataxis
61	up	up	ADP	_	60 wake	compound:prt
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 help	cc
63	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 wake	conj
64	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 help	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Effie				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Effie not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	past	Effie	Effie's arms		George St.'s neck		for the marble; well property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Destination
4	is	past	the marble			the way		at the back	tree rules
5	kiss	past	St.	the marble face					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	St.						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	wake up in a quote	infinitive	kind George St.						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	help in a quote	infinitive	kind George St. not said here		us				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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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