The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 112
Then the Queen threw her arms around the witch's neck and kissed her half a hundred times. "
Who acts: Queen · What happens: throw, kiss · To what, where: arms, neck, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | 4 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 witch | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kissed | cc |
| 13 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | obj |
| 15 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 17 hundred | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 times | nummod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the Queen | Queen's arms | the witch's neck | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Destination | ||
| 2 | kiss | past | the Queen not said here | Queen | time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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